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Babes and Moms Share More
An interesting article in Science Translational Medicine today. (Y.M.D. Lo, “Maternal plasma DNA sequencing reveals the genome-wide genetic and mutational profile of the fetus,” Science Trans Med,...
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In “dem” Genes
Allogrooming baboons, courtesy of Muhammad Mahdi Karim Genes account for the physical nature of our beings, and this has been known for about 100 years, but how these genes are used or expressed...
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The Little and Big of Life
The most common water flea contains one of the biggest genomes. The common water flea, Daphnia pulex, just got added to the ever expanding list of NIH scientific model organisms in 2011. Not that...
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Figuring Out the Tree of Life Is Harder Than You Think!
Just when things looked settled in the match up between paleo-morphological records and the genetics records, along comes a paper in Nature Magazine that upset the “cart of knowledge.” This seemingly...
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Jumping Genomic Sequences
An example of human sequence intermixed with bacterial If only it were…. As reported in PLoS today, a survey of genomic databases collected and housed at the National Center for Biotechnology...
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Where the Mammoths and Buffalo Roam…
Over the past week, in a field south of the San Francisco Bay Area, a mammoth skeleton was unearthed (Holy Tusk, Batman!). Apparently not the first, but one of the really big Columbian Mammoths, 14...
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The Neanderthal Human Backstory
The popular press and scientific journals have been reporting on increasing evidence for a mixing of human and Neandertal genes. Described as a dalliance and glorious meeting, love affair as it were,...
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