genetics

This statement is still an urban legend, that is, a hoax. The phenotypic characteristics of an individual, that is, height, eye and hair color, wingspan, face shape and other external features, depend fundamentally on their genetic endowment.

Our deepest terrors and fears are written in our genes and change with age, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has just shown that all people with blue eyes come from a common ancestor that lived between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, in the Neolithic period.

Exercise not only strengthens our muscles and our hearts, it also modifies the expression of genes, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

There are two methods of artificially altering the traits and qualities of animals: selective breeding and genetic manipulation . The latter consists of the...

Sociologically, the pen can be compared, for example, to the convulsive movements that have spread among blacks in the United States.

As we all know, the number of human chromosomes is 23 pairs, that is, 46 chromosomes. Chimpanzees, our closest cousins, are 48 and why is not very clear.

"Knowing ancient DNA helps to rebuild the tree of life" Born in Barcelona in 1965, Carles Lalueza-Fox received his doctorate in Biology from the University of Barcelona and completed his training with expert anthropologists from Oxford and Cambridge. In 2001, the quality of his work took him to Reykjavik, Iceland, where he worked for DeCode Genetics in the study of genetic diseases of the population of that country. He has recovered with his team the DNA of the great extinct bird moa and of our Cro-Magnon ancestor.