Genetics
The oldest human DNA in The New World
Dennis Jenkins, an archeologist from the University of Oregon, along with other researchers, have recovered mitochondrial DNA from human excrements found in the Paisley Caves located in the Summer Lake Basin north of Paisley in south-central Oregon.
NIST Guides Genetic Genealogy Labs Toward Improved Accuracy
Anyone who has watched crime dramas on TV knows that forensic scientists can use DNA “profiling” to identify people from evidence gathered at a crime scene, establish a paternity link or help free an innocent person who has been wrongly jailed.
99 Percent similar but highly different
Scientists are closer to understand why although 99 per cent of the human and chimpanzee genes are identical, there are vast differences in the way the two look, behave, think and react to pathogens.
Science
Scientists Discover "Giant Fossil Frog from Hell"
Evidence Suggests Late Cretaceous Period South America-Madagascar Link
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Life Sciences
Did Life Originate in a Mica Sandwich Sitting in Primordial Soup?
New "soup and sandwich" hypothesis suggests spaces between mica layers may have provided exactly the right conditions for earliest life.
New Research to Probe Human Mind and Future Infrastructure Systems
The National Science Foundation - Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation has announced 12 grants for fiscal year 2008, awarding a total of $23,779,056 over four years to 54 investigators representing 20 institutions.
Illuminating Study Reveals How Plants Respond to Light
Plants prepare to respond to light while still in the dark
Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria
How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year?
Microbes Churn Out Hydrogen at Record Rate
In new table-top reactor, bacteria from wastewater produce abundant, clean hydrogen from cellulose, or even vinegar, and a little electricity.
Microbes Plus Sugars Equals Hydrogen Fuel?
Wanted: Bacterium that can eat sugar or sludge; must be team player or electrochemically active; ability to survive without oxygen, a plus.
Light Brings Out the Worst in Some Disease-Causing Bacteria
Bacteria can sense light, and light exposure increases the virulence of one type of disease-causing bacteria
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