Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India
During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near […]
Creating a simplified form of life microbiologystudy
It is one of the most fundamental questions in science: how can lifeless molecules come together to form a living
Genetics
Ancient viral DNA in the human genome linked to multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis microbiologystudy
Retrotranscriptome-wide association studies of neurodegenerative diseases. Credit: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.10.020 New research from King’s College London
A Reversal of Fortune: The Artic is Getting Better at Storing Carbon, as its Shrubbery Expands microbiologystudy
WOODS HOLE, Mass. — What will happen to the 1.8 billion tons of carbon stored in the frozen peat of
Genetics
Genome sequencing developed to trace COVID now protects babies in intensive care from infectious diseases microbiologystudy
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Anyone who has spent time inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) knows it’s intense. For
Genetic discovery paves the way for advanced pancreatic and colorectal cancer treatments microbiologystudy
Wild-type Kras deficient KPN cells show reduced metastatic capacity and increased immune infiltration. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44342-4 Recent
Bias, Confounding and Interaction in Epidemiology microbiologystudy
In an epidemiological study, the results derived from the investigation reflect the real association between the exposure and development of
Microplastic Contamination in Environment microbiologystudy
Any fragments or particles of plastic less than 5 mm in length are defined as microplastic. The microplastics are categorized
Complex genomic variants are related to psychiatric diseases, study finds microbiologystudy
The new algorithm was trained on dozens of complete human genomes and has a 95% accuracy rate at identifying complex