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The origin of the human species remains one of the most fascinating and difficult topics of modern science. One of the main reasons for this is a continuing lack of agreement about how we should define…
Scandinavian conifer trees in the high arctic were able to withstand the last ice age, researchers from Murdoch University…
Eighty years after slipping to the brink of extinction, a colony of King Penguins at Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean has rebounded and is flourishing through conservation efforts, Australian researchers…
The male-specific Y-chromosome is shrinking – and it’s happening at different rates across species. Researchers discovered…
Testing the effectiveness of drugs treating conditions such as cancer in real time may be closer to reality thanks to a new…
When we think of the last 50,000 years of prehistory, particularly the “Ice Age”, extinct species such as the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros often spring to mind. Did humans bring about the extinction…
All over the planet, a new wave of exploration and exploitation is taking place. Bioprospectors are searching for new and useful biological samples and compounds from previously unstudied animals and plants…
Could contemporary plague outbreaks such as those that have hit Peru and the USA have their origins in the medieval era? It would seem so. A paper published in Nature today reports a genome sequence taken…
We humans had sex with Neandertals; we bonked the relatives of Neandertals; we got down and dirty with members of an as-yet unrecognised African population; and we, of course, got jiggy with each other…
A study involving thousands of people has revealed two distinct DNA areas in asthma patients. “Two regions of the DNA were…
The Conversation asked CSIRO scientist, Richard Richards, to look at the top five myths about genetic modification (GM), and correct the public record. Myth one: GM is just haphazard, imprecise cross-breeding…
Researchers have discovered a new genetic defect that can lead to Leigh syndrome, a rare and potentially fatal neurometabolic…
The remains of iconic bushranger Ned Kelly have been positively identified by forensic scientists more than a century after his hanging in 1880. The identification was made after an exhaustive forensic…
Researchers have unlocked the blueprints to the “power plants” within cells, providing clues that could help treat a range…
For the first time, researchers have identified the mechanism by which chronic stress can damage DNA. By infusing mice with…
New evidence has supported belief that the building blocks of DNA were brought to Earth by meteorites. The existence of DNA…
The recent US Federal Court of Appeals decision relates to the patent law status of inventions based on the discovery that particular mutations in BRCA genes predispose women to breast and ovarian cancer…
A specific DNA variant is linked with a person’s likelihood of suffering sudden cardiac death, according to researchers at…
A genetic instruction controlling limb development was present in fish almost half a billion years ago, researchers at a…
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