Scientists Find A Fingerprint Of Evolution Across The Human Genome Posted: 2 years ago by Blankspace73
The Human Genome Project revealed that only a small fraction of the 3 billion “letter” DNA code actually instructs cells to manufacture proteins, the workhorses of most life processes. This has raised the question of what the remaining part of the human genome does. How much of the rest performs other biological functions, and how much is merely residue of prior genetic events?
Evolution FTW.
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Human Genome Project Phase 2 Posted: 2 years ago by Pocksucket
The original Human Genome Project mapped the DNA from one person and took 13 years to complete. Today the 1000 Genome Project was announced - a plan to map the differences between individual humans that will give an insight into the physiological differences between us, and genetic diseases too. It is expected to take 3 years.
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Human Genome - World's Greatest Battlefield Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies, DNA fossils. These helped mold our immune system, a system that is truly remarkable evolutionary speaking.
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Evolutionary comparison finds new human genes Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Using supercomputers to compare portions of the human genome with those of other mammals, researchers at Cornell have discovered some 300 previously unidentified human genes, and found extensions of several hundred genes already known. The discovery is based on the idea that as organisms evolve, sections of genetic code that do something useful for the organism change in different ways.
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I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome Posted: 2 years ago by johnnytitan
The scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real. - Interesting
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Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
While it is well understood that the evolution of new genes leads to adaptations that help species survive, gene loss may also afford a selective advantage. A group of scientists has investigated this less-studied idea, carrying out the first systematic computational analysis to identify long-established genes that have been lost across millions of years of evolution leading to the human species.
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Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins Posted: 3 years ago by ogri2003
Journey through the story of human evolution in an interactive documentary.
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Cow genome fully sequenced, Genetically enhanced cows? Posted: 11 months ago by Ankabout
Scientists have fully mapped the genome of cows. the researchers discovered how cows could help inform research into human health and disease.
"We found that cows are much more similar to us than rodents are,"
What about the genetic enhancements possible?
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Researchers: Human Evolution Speeding Up Posted: 2 years ago by Mershaullk
Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening.
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First Genetic Link Between Reptile And Human Heart Evolution Found Posted: 7 months ago by bernardblack
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have discovered the first genetic link to the evolution of two, rather than one, pumping chamber in the heart, which is a key event in the evolution of becoming warm-blooded.
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Sir David Attenborough documentary 'reveals missing link in human evolution' Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
Sir David Attenborough is to present a documentary claiming to have discovered a missing link in human evolution – a monkey-like creature called an adapid.
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Human embryonic stem cells developed from 4-cell embryo; world first may lessen ethical concerns Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
For the first time in the world scientists have succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from a single cell, or blastomere, of a 4-cell stage embryo. This means it might be possible in the future to produce hESC lines at an earlier stage without destroying the embryo.
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How warfare shaped human evolution Posted: 1 year ago by bingo
T'S a question at the heart of what it is to be human: why do we go to war? The cost to human society is enormous, yet for all our intellectual development, we continue to wage war well into the 21st century.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights flies into space Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a sprit of brotherhood”, states Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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Human Age Posted: 3 years ago by daftgretel
Human age is a simulation game / free virtual management game / rpg where you adopt a human being and help him or her through various ages of mankind, from prehistory to the 21st century, from learning how to use a club to your driver's license.
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S.Korea scientists clone pig for human transplants Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.
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Human cardiac master stem cells identified Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified the earliest master human heart stem cell from human embryonic stem cells - ISL1+ progenitors - that give rise to a family of cells that form the essential portions of the human heart.
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Human blood vessels grown in mice Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHIll
Scientists have used human cells to grow new blood vessels in a mouse for the first time, a US journal reports.
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Scientists Partially Reconstruct Genome of Extinct Mammoth Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species.
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A Line of Spectacular Proportions. Posted: 2 years ago by wildminou
A line is formed by every of your parents behind you. How many miles behind you to find Homo sapiens ?
Nice Video Illustrating the time scale of human evolution
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Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A team of Genographic researchers have published the most extensive survey to date of African mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Analyses of the extensive data presented in this study provide surprising insights into the early demographic history of human populations before they moved out of Africa, illustrating that these early human populations were small and isolated from each other for many tens of thousands of years.
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