The great majority of how we understand human disease, and attempt to cure it, derives from mice genetically fashioned to be prolific breeders, docile and easy to handle—all qualities that have made it the favorite tool ...
May 29, 2024
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There's an old joke that mosquitoes are like family: They are annoying, but they carry your blood.
May 25, 2024
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The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from a smaller primate brain into the creative, complex organ of today is a mystery. Scientists can pinpoint 'when' our evolutionary ancestors evolved ...
Dec 11, 2023
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A new COVID variant with very few known cases but many mutations has been swiftly moved into the World Health Organization's "variant under monitoring" classification.
Aug 18, 2023
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The word 'evolution' may bring to mind dusty dinosaur bones, but it impacts our health every day. For example, even though antibiotics were invented only a century ago, the evolution of antibiotic resistance is already a ...
Feb 28, 2023
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International measures on travellers from China will likely have little effect on containing COVID, health experts said Tuesday, pointing to a surging variant in the United States that may pose a larger threat.
Jan 3, 2023
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Associate professor of psychology and human development, Laura Novick, and graduate student Jingyi Liu, have published a paper highlighting the importance of intentionally and thoughtfully designed figures to explain evolutionary ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment of conception have created ...
Sep 1, 2022
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By using new methods for analyzing DNA data and medical records, researchers from Brown University are helping improve the understanding of complex traits that will make more discoveries relevant to non-white, non-European ...
May 4, 2022
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A new study illuminates how a gene called HAND2 may have a hand in the timing of human labor.
Feb 22, 2021
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