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Synopsis: Sequencing accelerates breeding programs for food-producing animals by helping to identify and select desirable characteristics, such as disease resistance. By breeding animals that are naturally...
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Synopsis: Tibetans live and thrive at extreme altitudes. An important event in this human adaptation was the incorporation of DNA from Denisovans. Denisovans are ancient ancestors that diverged from...
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Every individual responds differently to infection by the same type of virus. This is partly due to the tricks viruses use to dodge the host s immune system. Viruses use transposable elements from the...
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One of the risks of global warming and the melting of the permafrost is that ancient microbes can be released into the environment. In a recent paper, the authors demonstrated that live, ancient viruses...
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Sequencing ancient mitochondrial DNA provided insights to the origin of dogs and their domestication. Not only has sequencing allowed us to trace back evolution of species, but also to trace back transmissible...
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Grapefruits and Mohawks: The Fountain of Youth? Synopsis: The process of aging has been of interest for millennia. Myths of the fountain of youth still have their allure of longevity. Scientists today...
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While HIV drug resistance testing is an integral aspect of part of HIV clinical care, a method for detecting minority populations of resistant virus has become an important aspect of research. View...
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The Human Microbiome Project and other worldwide efforts have laid important foundations for understanding more about the trillions of microbes on and within our bodies. However, direct public involvement...