Why can humans talk and chimpanzees can't? Scient... ...d Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/13/the-genetic-home-of-speech/There has never been a documented case of cancer found in a Naked Mole Rat, which is unusual as they can live to be 30 years old. Now biologists at the Unversity of Rochester believe they have found the reason. The find...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/27/naked-mole-rats-immune-to-cancer/That's the question that Jeremy Hsu asks, given innovations in genetic engineering: In 2006, researchers found six Pakistani children who felt no pain due to an inactivated gene, and who constantly had bruises and cut...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/03/is-it-ethical-to-engineeer-delicious-cows-that-feel-no-pain/Frustrated with those around office who brag about... ...rag about how early they got up? It appears that genetics plays a role in one's sleep habits ... and that t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/22/early-risers-are-mutants/A laboratory at Nucleix, a life-sciences company,... ...wrote in a recent Forensic Science International: Genetics study that announced the technological achievemen...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/18/scientists-create-fake-dna/Chimps may be portrayed as mischieviously fun but largely harmless by Hollywood, but the truth is anything but. In the wild, chimpanzees are killers that engage in years-long war against one another, and their behavior m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/19/the-chimps-of-war/At one point in time in my graduate studies, I sto... ...estion one of the most basic assumptions of human genetics : that when it comes to DNA, every cell in the bod...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/17/dna-is-dna-is-dna-right/Researchers from the Universite de la Mediterranee-CNRS-EFS in France analyzed the DNA of Neanderthal fossils and found that the species might actually be composed of several "races":We tend to think of Neander...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/19/multiple-races-of-neanderthals/In his art series Family Tree, photographer Bobby Neel Adams take portraits of family members (father/son, mother/daughter and so on) tear them down the middle and gluing them back together (no photoshop manipulation is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/31/family-tree-by-bobby-neel-adams/Five-year-old Beatrice Rienhoff suffers from a rar... ...ay, Rienhoff has been an avid student of clinical genetics since he earned his medical degree nearly 30 year... ...e to transform his Bay Area home into a makeshift genetics lab. Surrounded by his children's artwork and boo...
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