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Adolf Hitler 'was high on heroin and injected with semen throughout Second World War'
mirror.co.uk - John Shammas
Adolf Hitler was high on a heroin-like drug throughout the Second World War and injected with semen to boost his energy as his regime collapsed, …
Ancient DNA cracks puzzle of Basque origins
bbc.co.uk
DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic people: the Basques. The distinct language and genetic make-up of the Basque people in northern Spain and southern
dendextend: a package for visualizing, adjusting, and comparing dendrograms (based on a paper from “bioinformatics”)
r-bloggers.com - Tal Galili
(This article was first published on R-statistics blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This post on the dendextend package is based on my …
University of Cambridge
Researchers Discover Extra DNA Base
iflscience.com - By Janet Fang
Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. How these four DNA bases are ordered determines the makeup of a genome. And now, researchers have discovered …
Survival genes: Scientists find DNA mutations that helped Russians during Leningrad siege
rt.com
Analysis of the genome structure of Leningrad siege survivors and their contemporaries has allowed Russian scientists to spot specific DNA mutations …
Rebooting the Human Genome
MIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado
The official map of the human genome can’t tell you everything about your genes. Does graph theory offer a better way? The Human Genome Project was …
WHY BOTH SIDES ARE WRONG IN THE RACE DEBATE
wordpress.com
Is race a biological reality? Or is it a social construction? It is a debate that shows no sign of being resolved. The more that we know of the …
Anti-Social Behavior
Episodes of Eating Children in Ancient Greece, Ranked in Order of Unreasonableness
theawl.com - The Awl
by Summer Block Kumar 5. If anyone has ever had a good reason to kill and serve their own child for dinner (they haven’t), Procne did (even though she …
For The First Time, Researchers Edit The Genes Of Human Embryos
Popular Science - By Alexandra Ossola
Rumors that this research was underway turn out to be true Rumors have been buzzing for months that a team of Chinese researchers was intending to edit the genes of a human embryo. According to a study
Next-Generation Sequencing
Your Next Prescription Could Be A Genome Sequence
Forbes - Meredith Salisbury
At Advances in Genome Biology and Technology, a conference for genomic scientists held earlier this year, one speaker told attendees that the use of genome sequencing to improve patient care is no longer
E.coli
What Are Genetically Recoded Organisms?
popsci.com.au
Now, however, a team of scientists from several U.S. universities has found a way to make small, but fundamental changes within that cellular …
Mammoth step forward? Scientists splice Woolly DNA into elephant cells
rt.com
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully inserting some sequences of mammoth …
Methylation
RNA-Seq no longer required - a new machine learning-based model predicts gene expression as a consequence of epigenetic
rna-seqblog.com - RNA-Seq Blog
from Lung Cancer News Today by Patricia Silva Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Hawaii created a model based on epigenomics …
DNA of Storied Plant Provides Insight into the Evolution of Flowering Plants, Study Finds — Eberly College of Science
psu.edu
19 December 2013 The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's "abominable mystery" -- the question of why flowers suddenly …
Color Isn't Always About Sex, Study Finds
Gizmodo - Maddie Stone
When it comes to birds, males—with their bright feathers, extra accessories, and impressive mating displays—tend to get all the attention. But for …
Tails Tell the Tale of Dinosaur Sex
scientificamerican.com - Sid Perkins, Nature magazine
Researchers think they have come up with a way to tell fossils of male dinosaurs from those of females—at least for some small feathered species. The …
10 Heartbreaking World War II Diary Entries Written By Everyday People
listverse.com - Alex Openshaw
The terror and devastation faced by millions during World War II is essentially unimaginable. Perhaps the closest we can come is through the …