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Why women live longer?
One gene helps men have bigger bodies than women, but reduces their lifespan, Japanese scientists concluded.
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Steel people do not know if pain is due to a genetic mutation
Some cases right from birth have no pain or normal reactions to pain to avoid danger.
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10 typical scientific discoveries in 2009
Time magazine recently published 10 historical scientific findings in 2009.
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Genetic mutations determine curling or straightening
Scientists from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Australia) have recently discovered that human hair is curled or straightened by trichohyalin genes.
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Humans know how to say thanks to mutations
Mutations in a gene help people develop speech and language.
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Gender war in each person
The female body must constantly struggle to control the rise of male sex and men also face the same war.
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Why precious granddaughter grandmother more often?
The proportion of identical genes between grandmother and granddaughter is much higher than that of nephews, so girls have many similarities with grandmothers.
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Human brain is getting smaller
US scientists have recently demonstrated that the human brain is still evolving and getting smaller and smaller.
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Detecting strange genes helps discover what makes people different
Humans and chimpanzees have many similarities and genes, however, it is not difficult to distinguish these two species from each other.
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African fruit bats are intermediate hosts of the Marburg virus
A group of scientists have reported the successful separation of Marburg virus genome sequences from a common bats eating African fruits (also known as Egyptian fruit ba…
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'Jumping genes' create diversity in human brain cells
Instead of just fixing in a DNA sequencing way, human brain cells have surprisingly diverse genetic levels.
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Put human speech into mice
It is not the mouse that speaks in cartoons, this is a flesh-and-bone mouse that carries a version of the human gene involved in speech, a new study says.
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Is cancer a price for a big brain?
Our big brain makes us superior to chimpanzees, but according to a new hypothesis, we may be paying for this size: that is the higher rate of cancer.
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History and geography create differences in genes in humans
New research shows that natural selection may form a slower sequence of human genes than one might expect.
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Sticklebacks have different genes but have the same evolutionary expression
Research shows that when two species of sticklebacks evolved, lost pelvis and body protection, these changes were caused by different genes in each species.