by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 4, 2022 | Genetics and Biotechnology
A research team (a collaboration between archaeologists from the universities of Newcastle, Central Lancashire, Exeter, and York and geneticists from the universities of Harvard, Vienna, and the Basque Country) has examined the bones and teeth of 35 people in one of...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 12, 2021 | Genetics and Biotechnology
As per a paper, published on May 26, 2021 in the bioRXiv (a free online archive pronounced bio-archive), titled ‘the complete sequence of a human geonome’, researchers from Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have successfully sequenced the first truly complete...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 29, 2020 | Genetics and Biotechnology
As per the study published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution in February 2020, scientists decoded the genome of one of the last mammoths from Wrangel Island, Russia. The report states that world’s last woolly mammoths suffered from serious genetic defects...
by Spectrum | May 24, 2020 | Genetics and Biotechnology
Scientists in Denmark have been able to extract a complete human DNA sample from a piece of birch bark pitch that is dated to more than 5,000 years ago, according to a report in December 2019. Apparently, it was chewed upon (as a kind of chewing gum). This was the...
by Spectrum | May 24, 2020 | Genetics and Biotechnology
The mitogenomes refer to part of the DNA on the y-chromosome of the male and the x-chromosome of the female, that is passed on over generations unmixed by sexual reproduction. It is independent of a cell’s nucleus where the rest of the genes are found. It resides in...
by Spectrum | May 24, 2020 | Genetics and Biotechnology
According to a report in October 2019, a large ancient wetlands region across northern Botswana, which is now a desert region with salt flats, may represent the ancestral homeland of all humans. The study, based on maternal DNA data from more than 1,200 people...
