Tag: Human Biology
Possible new antivirals against COVID-19, herpes
Clinically approved antiviral drugs are currently available for only 10 of the more than 220 viruses known to infect humans. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has...
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study...
A study published Friday in the journal Science Advances shows that just a sliver of our genome is uniquely shared with other humans, and...
Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei
A new classification system for cell nuclei has been unveiled classified by how chromosomes fold up to fit inside the nuclei of different species...
Genes for nose shape found
Image showing variation between nose shape and the specific genes responsible. Credit: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari, UCL
Genes that drive the shape of human noses have...
Twin study finds that gut microbiomes run in families
Does host gentoype shape the microbiome? This visual abstract shows the findings of Goodrich et al. present a gut microbiome analysis of 1,126 twin...
Humans have faster metabolism than closely related primates, enabling larger brains
Chimpanzee. Adjusted for body size, on a daily basis humans consume 400 more calories than chimpanzees. Credit: © Patrick Bouquet / Flickr
Loyola University Chicago...
Analysis of nearly 600,000 genomes for resilience project
As part of a global collaboration, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Sage Bionetworks conducted the largest genome study...
