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Horse Origin Traced to Lineage That Emerged 4,200 Years Ago
Time Magazine· 13 hours agoAround 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia,...
Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago
WPXI· 15 hours agoWASHINGTON — (AP) — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of...
A New Cat Color Is Defying Genetic Expectations
Country Living via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA paper on the discovery has been published in the journal Animal Genetics. When you’re digging into cat colors—or expressions of genetic traits in...
‘Salty licorice’ cat pattern is the result of a genetic mutation, study reveals
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe cats’ name comes from a candy in Finland, where the distinct coloring was first spotted. A novel...
Mutations in a non-coding gene associated with intellectual disability
Ars Technica· 7 days agoAlmost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. To rectify this, Ernest Turro—a biostatistician ...
New genetic cause of intellectual disability potentially uncovered in 'junk DNA'
LiveScience· 7 days agoScientists have uncovered a rare genetic cause of intellectual disability in a historically...
Faulty gene likely to be cause of severe learning difficulties, study finds
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoResearchers made the discovery while carrying out genetic analysis using whole-genome sequencing...
Ancient DNA Unravels the Origins of a Mysterious Lineage of Mergansers
SciTechDaily· 19 hours agoA new study has discovered that mergansers arrived in New Zealand from the Northern Hemisphere over...
US scientists create world’s first seedless blackberry using CRISPR
Interesting Engineering· 2 days agoThis has led them to develop the world’s first seedless blackberry. Short for Clustered Regularly...
A New Cat Color Is Defying Genetic Expectations
Prevention via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA paper on the discovery has been published in the journal Animal Genetics. When you’re digging into cat colors—or expressions of genetic traits in...