DNA

DNA tests have confirmed that the body recently found on a glacier southeast of the famed Matterhorn peak is that of a German mountaineer who disappeared 37 years ago, police in southwestern Switzerland said Thursday. Increasing glacier…
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A new study has found that structural variants in human DNA may have played a role in the evolution of uniquely human features, particularly the brain. The study, led by researchers at Gladstone Institutes and published in the journal…
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Representatives of Ukrainian civil society and rights groups have visited an organization that uses high-tech DNA techniques to identify people who go missing in conflicts and natural disasters, a move intended to boost cooperation during…
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It’s been three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Yet the mystery of how it got started continues to make headlines again and again and to fuel a heated, and oft-time political, debate. While what exactly happened in the earliest…
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DNA from strands of Beethoven’s hair is helping to uncover what may have caused his death, researchers say. The composer was plagued with health issues for most of his life. On March 26, 1827, he succumbed to what many historians suspect…
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Ice sheets expanded across much of northern Europe from around 25,000 to 19,000 years ago, making a huge expanse of land unlivable. That harsh event set in motion a previously unrecognized tale of two human populations that played out at…
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Subway restaurant chain is once again facing a legal battle over its famous tuna sandwich, with accusations that the ingredients have nothing to do with fish. In the latest iteration of the lawsuit, prosecutors allege that 19 of the 20…
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