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The mystery of the disappearing Neanderthal Y chromosome
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNon-Africans carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA in their genomes — yet there's one chromosome where DNA...
'More Neanderthal than human': How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn people who inherited Neanderthal DNA, the X-chromosome also contains a lot less Neanderthal...
10 unexpected ways Neanderthal DNA affects our health
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoScience. The researchers also found that Neanderthal DNA was likely to make carriers more sensitive...
What’s Happening With The Y Chromosome?
IFLScience· 6 days agoThe human Y chromosome isn’t what it used to be – long gone are the days when it used to be the same size as its pal, X. It’s now much smaller, but is it...
Chromosome Ends in Double Jeopardy
The Scientist· 5 days agoAs DNA strands ravel and unravel in an intricate dance, one notable event takes center stage: replication. The discovery of telomerase in the 1980s...
Genetic Signatures of a Defective Heart
The Scientist· 7 days agoThe making of the human heart is a complex process, and problems in heart development can result in congenital heart defects (CHD). In a recent study, researchers sought to pinpoint the genes on chromosome 21 implicated in CHD.
Advances in Rice Genome Research Offer Insights an | Newswise
Newswise· 22 hours agoA research team has achieved a groundbreaking improvement in the haplotype-resolved genome sequence of the japonica rice cultivar Nipponbare.
The RNA Revolution Is Changing Our Understanding of Biology
Scientific American· 7 days agoIn 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few...
Researchers identify new drivers of antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Phys.org· 12 hours agoAccording to a new study from Uppsala University published in Nature Communications, these two mechanisms, along with a third known mechanism, can occur independently of each other, even within ...
Generation and maintenance of the circularized multimeric IS26-associated translocatable unit...
Nature· 3 days agoThen, their genomic DNA was extracted, and the copy numbers of P2-related and P1 sequences relative to the chromosome sequence were determined by digital ...