Ewen Callaway
Oldest discovered human DNA pushes back Neanderthal-modern human split
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Matthias Meyer has just ...
Ancient human species interbred extensively, new discovery shows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The discovery of yet ...
Error found in study of first ancient African genome may change story of early human migration
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An error has forced ...
Gene edited mosquitoes could wipe out malaria forever
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mutant mosquitoes engineered to ...
Black Death lurked in humans as early as Bronze age
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Black Death notoriously ...
Human migration to Asia much earlier than thought, newly discovered teeth reveal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Teeth from a cave ...
New Ebola vaccine may reshape regulation of clinical drug trials
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in December 2013, triggering the largest-ever epidemic of the disease, there was no ...
Small contributions from Neanderthals, Denosovans had huge influence on modern human genome
Our ancestors were not a picky bunch. Overwhelming genetic evidence shows that Homo sapiens had sex with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other archaic ...
Kennewick Man’s genome to solve long dispute over remains
The genome of a famous 8,500-year-old North American skeleton, known as Kennewick Man, shows that he is closely related to ...
Early Europeans closer to Neanderthals than expected
One of Europe’s earliest known humans had a close Neanderthal ancestor: perhaps as close as a great-great-grandparent. The finding, announced ...
Mammoth genes could be used to create new species of ‘Arctic’ elephant
Unlike their elephant cousins, woolly mammoths were creatures of the cold, with long hairy coats, thick layers of fat and ...
Paralysis-causing virus proving difficult to identify
Since August 2014, more than 100 children and young adults in the United States have developed a mysterious paralysis. Many ...
Genghis Khan’s reputation as history’s most fertile father challenged by 9 mystery men
Millions of men bear the genetic legacy of Genghis Khan, the famously fertile Mongolian ruler who died in 1227. Researchers ...
Genomics reveals evolutionary history of drug resistant tuberculosis
From the dawn of agriculture to the fall of the Soviet Union, major events in human history have left marks ...
Are monkeys intelligent enough to exhibit human-like self recognition?
The ability to recognize oneself in a mirror has been touted as a hallmark of higher cognition — present in ...
Expanded efforts to sequence cat genomes may provide clues to human disease
Cats may have beaten dogs on the Internet but felines have been a rare breed in genetics labs compared with ...
What researchers have learned about human evolution in 40 years since Lucy discovery
“Feeling really lucky,” Donald Johanson wrote in his diary the morning of 24 November 1974, while staying at a remote ...
New dating technique supports evidence of human-Neanderthal relationship
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 ...
As much mystery surrounds Neanderthals’ evolution as their demise
The emergence of Neanderthals is just as mysterious as their disappearance about 30,000 years ago. A study of skulls from ...
De-masculizing RNA determines sex in silkworms, a new pathway for sex determination in animals
In the silk business, sex is money. Male silkworms weave cocoons with more silk of a higher quality than females ...
Epigenetics might explain how humans differed from Neanderthals despite very similar genes
The DNA sequences of Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives have exposed lost migrations, sexual escapades and even new species ...
Epigenetic studies provide intriguing results, but are hard to replicate
Obesity may be written not only in the genes, but also on top of them. One of the largest studies ...
Genetics has dramatically changed the fields of archeology and anthropology. What next?
We are in the midst of an an ancient-genomics boom. In the past year, researchers have unveiled the two oldest ...
Global genomic data-sharing effort kicks off
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon jump from the thousands to the millions. But a recently established high-profile ...
Ancient Native American DNA remains present ethical minefield
Sequencing the genome of an ancient Native American reveals more about American history, and underscores the difficult, delicate dance of ...
Genome analysis shows interbreeding of ancient human-like groups
New genome sequences from two extinct human relatives suggest that these ‘archaic’ groups bred with humans and with each other ...
Open-access genome project lands in UK
The open-access genome project in the UK, led by Genomics England, has a lot in common with the Personal Genome ...
NIH approves first uses of HeLa genome
A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee approved the first uses of genomic data from the HeLa cell line on 16 ...
