An international team of scientists shows in 'PLoS Biology' that the African savanna elephant and the smaller one in the forest are not the same species but have been differentiated from each other for millions of years. To reach these conclusions, researchers have for the first time compared the Asian elephant, the African forest elephant, the African savanna elephant, the extinct woolly mammoth and the extinct American mastodon together.
Researchers at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Rockville (USA) have discovered a mutation that could predispose to severe impulsive behavior when consuming alcohol, according to an article published today in the journal 'Nature'.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) have sequenced the nuclear genome of an ancestral hominin from eastern Siberia using DNA extracted from a finger bone. The species, called Denisovan, lived 30,000 years ago.
Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Edinburgh have identified the genetic basis for 130 brain diseases. The study, published in the journal 'Nature Neuroscience', also reveals a connection between these pathologies and the evolution of the human brain.
Science magazine has released its "top ten" of the main scientific advances of the year. The creation of the first quantum machine tops the list, followed by the first bacterium with an artificial genome, a major milestone for "synthetic biology."
A recent study carried out by Michigan State University and published in the journal 'Archives of General Psychiatry' suggests that married men behave better, that is, they are less aggressive and have less tendency to break the laws.
The international consortium of the "1000 Genomes Project" has just published "the first large-scale inventory of human genetic diversity", which identifies 95% of the most common genetic variations in the world population. Knowing the genetic differences between individuals will help explain why some people are at higher risk than others of developing diseases such as diabetes or cancer.
An international team of scientists has discovered the genetic bases of obesity after identifying 18 new genes associated with obesity in general - and the Body Mass Index (BMI) - and 13 linked to the distribution of fat - waist-hip ratio (WHR). ) -.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
