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Possible new antivirals against COVID-19, herpes

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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As part of a global collaboration, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Sage Bionetworks conducted the largest genome study...