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6 votes
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Navigating the ethics of ancient human DNA research
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How donkeys changed the course of human history
5 votes -
Expanding the brain. Literally.
3 votes -
Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
5 votes -
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
4 votes -
In a first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth
5 votes -
Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
5 votes -
Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
12 votes -
The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
8 votes -
The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
10 votes -
Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
4 votes -
Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
10 votes -
Controlled indoor cultivation of black morel (Morchella sp.) all-year-round
10 votes -
New cancer therapy from Yibin Kang's lab holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects
6 votes -
To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
4 votes -
The first baby in history to be conceived with the help of polygenic testing
9 votes -
Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
15 votes -
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
18 votes -
Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
12 votes -
These mutant blind rabbits walk on their front two legs, and now we know why
14 votes -
Scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
5 votes -
The pandemic that lasted fifteen million years
4 votes -
Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows
8 votes -
Nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering
6 votes -
The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there
11 votes -
One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
7 votes -
Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
3 votes -
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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Color blindness
6 votes -
The human genome is full of viruses
8 votes -
Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
14 votes -
Losing the education lottery
4 votes -
How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
3 votes -
The girl who turned to bone
6 votes -
Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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How Europeans evolved white skin
7 votes -
Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
4 votes -
Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus
6 votes -
Physical force alone spurs gene expression, study reveals
8 votes -
Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
8 votes -
A world without pain
6 votes -
A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
20 votes -
The gene patent question
4 votes -
The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers
8 votes -
Unified theory of evolution
4 votes -
Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
7 votes -
Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
8 votes