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Technologies that rapidly sequence DNA reveal deep genetic diversity both within and among individuals with leukaemia. ... S. Genetics: Written in blood. Nature 498, S4–S6 (2013) ...
Such genetic barriers make speciation predictable despite evidence of historic hybridization events. “There’s predictability because of natural selection,” Martin says.
Unraveling The Genetic Code That Makes Us Human In The Violinist's Thumb, writer Sam Kean goes inside our genetic code, looking at the stories written by the fundamental building blocks within us.
Genetics can explain more in the "Potterverse" than just magical ability — like the Weasley family's signature hair color, for example. Red hair is caused by a mutation in the MC1R gene; but it ...
Nature Reviews Genetics will keep you abreast of these, but there's much more to be gained from our pages. The synthesis of one aspect of genetics, written by a leader in the field, is exciting ...
This week, medical researchers ruled out brainstem CT scanning alone for proof of neurologic death. Researchers at Yale presented new evidence that the brain stores and retrieves visuomotor ...
The law was written after genetic discrimination emerged in the 1970s. At the time, programs to screen and identify genetic carriers of sickle cell anemia, a disease which afflicts many Black ...
Researchers in Australia, the United States and England examined DNA from more than 400,000 participants in the UK Biobank, a repository of genetic data for medical research.
This genetic dataset illustrates the complex social and ethnic network which has developed in Brazil in the last 500 years. "Most of the European colonists were men, and considering the history of ...