Tag: genetics
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
We discovered a missing gene fragment that’s shedding new light on...
Peter Koopman, The University of Queensland
It’s one of the most important genes in biology: “Sry”, the gene that makes males male. Development of the...
Brain scientists haven’t been able to find major differences between women’s...
Ari Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton...
Labs are experimenting with new – but unproven – methods to...
Jean Peccoud, Colorado State University
The coronavirus has ground social, economic and educational exchanges to a halt around the world. For now, public health officials...
Modern tomatoes are very different from their wild ancestors – and...
Hamid Razifard, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Ana Caicedo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The Big...
Not all genes are necessary for survival – these species dropped...
Jessica M. Velez, University of Tennessee; Alison Gerken, Kansas State University, and Amey Redkar, Universidad de Córdoba
Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000...
Why Bill Maher is wrong about fat-shaming
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
On a recent episode of his Friday evening talk show, Bill Maher proposed that society combat obesity by body-shaming overweight individuals....
Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights...
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
