The current COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), underscores the importance
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How human evolution busts myths about diet and exercise
Duke professor Herman Pontzer has spent his career counting calories. Not because he’s watching his waistline, exactly. But because, as
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CovMT could help researchers to track evolution of SARS-CoV-2 mutations
A SARS-CoV-2 tracker uses publicly available sequencing data to show how the virus is changing and spreading over time. The
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Fear of a super virus to Make mutations in Sars-CoV-2 contagious?
The Coronavirus has now infected tens of millions of people – it mutates and becomes more dangerous? In a not-yet-peer-reviewed
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New drugs could stymie superbugs by freezing evolution
Scientists may have uncovered a new weapon in the fight against antibiotic-resistant superbugs: drugs that freeze bacterial evolution in its
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Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave rise to its
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Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization
A recent study of centuries-old French-Canadian genealogical data by a Brown University economist revealed evidence that supports his own 17-year-old
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Faulty science and ethics cited in DNA analyzes of Atacama mummy
University of Otago-led international collaborative research calls into question the ethics and skeletal and genomic analysis surrounding research into the
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Genetic ancestry test users ‘cherry-pick’ which races to identify with
Genetic ancestry tests are often advertised as a tool to uncover new connections to diverse cultures and ancestries, but new
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You May Have a 'Second Brain' in Your Butt… And It's Smarter Than You Think
You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a
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