Exterior of Devil's Gate: the cave in the Primorye region, about 30km from the far eastern coast of Russia, where the human remains were found from which the ancient DNA used in the study was extracted.Credit: Yuriy Chernyavskiy
In contrast...
In a 700,000-plus person study, the international Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium has uncovered 83 new DNA changes that affect human height.Credit: Lauren Solomon, Broad Communications
In the largest, deepest search to date, the international Genetic Investigation of...
The researchers, from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University in Shaanxi, China, used a modified version of the CRISPR gene-editing technology to insert a new gene into the cow genome with no detected off target effects on...
The two-mass model of the human body and a corresponding pattern of running foot-ground force application. The overall force-time pattern can be accurately understood as the sum of two parts: 1) the force corresponding to the collision of the...
Research on tunas in the lab of Stanford Professor Barbara Block identified the substance in crude oil that causes dysfunction in heart cells. This is a Pacific bluefin tuna in the Open Sea exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium....
An illustration showing how a sugar molecule is attached to the protein when it undergoes the O-GlcNAcylation modification process. Credit: Courtesy of Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang.
New work from Carnegie's Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang reveals that the process...
Hypothetical structural model of the assembly of TIR domains during signalling, from the SNC1 immunity receptor found in Arapidopsis plants. Individual subunits are shown in different colours, with β-strands shown as arrows and α-helices shown as cylinders. Credit: Bostjan...
On the left, in vivo image of nanomachines using current microscopy techniques; on the right, the new method allows 3D observation of nanomachines in vivo and provides 25-fold improvement in resolution (O. Gallego, IRB Barcelona)
Researchers headed by IRB Barcelona...
A depiction of the double helical structure of DNA. Its four coding units (A, T, C, G) are color-coded in pink, orange, purple and yellow. Credit: NHGRI
The largest ever genetic study of children with previously undiagnosed rare developmental disorders...
In this electron microscope image of fish muscle, the muscle fiber is removed showing the mesh of surrounding connective tissue. Credit: David Sleboda/Brown University
Touch your toes. Feel that familiar tension in your leg muscles? A new Brown University study...
Professor Floyd Romesberg (right) and Graduate Student Yorke Zhang led the new study at The Scripps Research Institute, along with Brian Lamb (not pictured). Credit: The Scripps Research Institute/Madeline McCurry-Schmidt
Life's genetic code has only ever contained four natural bases....
