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Detecting microscopic differences of twins and eggs
In the era of modern genetic technology, police can often identify a suspect through a small hair or blood droplet collected at the scene. However, their techniques may…
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Use bacterial immunity to make them
The overuse of antibiotics on humans and animals is thought to be the main cause of the increase in antibiotic-resistant or superbug bacteria.
Biology
Amborella DNA sequences shed light on the origin of flowering plants
DNA of legendary plants provides insight into the evolution of flowering plants.
Biology
Bees once fell into great extinction
Scientists say bees have fallen into extinction at the same time the dinosaurs disappear because many species of plants have died.
Biology
DNA lice reveal human migration
New research results published in PLOS ONE also show that efforts to remove blood-sucking parasites may need to focus on local communities, rather than trying to destroy…
Biology
Identify DNA to avoid mating to save frogs from extinction
What happens if two other frogs mate with each other because they are confused, and then discover that they are not identical and cannot reproduce.
Biology
Mysterious animals 'stop sex' 80 million years
The tiny, all-female creature called bdelloid rotifer has survived over 80 million years on Earth without it.
Biology
The cause of drug resistance is detected
After DNA analysis from Clostridium difficile (C-difficile) virus samples taken from hospitals around the world in the period of 1985-2010.
Biology
People were born due to
A successful double-inverted invertebrate, kicks off the process of evolving hundreds of millions of years to form humans and other high-level animals, scientists claim.
Biology
Russia first decoded DNA of ancient trunk
Russian scientists have for the first time deciphered the DNA sequence of the ancient timber tree Metasequoia whose remains are found on Axel Heiberg Island, north of Ca…
Biology
Drug resistance of the virus
According to Genes and Development, an international research group consisting of scientists from Edinburgh University (Scotland) has established a map of the complex mo…
Biology
Insert selected DNA sequences into plants
Researcher Christopher A. Cullis has found that the environment not only eliminates harmful and useless mutations through natural selection, but also affects beneficial…
Biology
Decode helminth genes
US scientists have decoded the DNA of a parasitic worm that causes helminths.