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Find out the top two causes of aging
By using genetic information on genes from many biological banks, the Japanese team can predict in advance the factors that affect human life expectancy.
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Biology
Why do hybrid rice have to breed every year?
There have been hybrid rice can get high yields, why can not self-pollinate and reproduce as normal rice, which must be conducted every year?
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What is your body, what is taken from your father, what is taken from your mother? Here is the answer!
Your intelligence, your height, eye color, and even weight gain. They are all inherited, but from whom?
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The shape of your chin tells you more than you think
Recently a study published in the journal Human Biology showed that: The shape of the chin can reveal many things about your childhood.
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Are the Ainu and Okinawan people in Japan having relatives?
According to a recent scientific discovery in Japan, Ainu minorities in Hokkaido and Okinawa have similar genetic characteristics through DNA analysis of these two commu…
Biology
The strange relationship between the Amazon and Australian aboriginal genes
A new Harvard University study published in the journal Nature has found strange genetic relationships between a number of Aboriginal communities living in the Amazon ju…
Animal world
The pattern spots on the skin are characteristics of giraffe identification
According to a new study published in the journal PeerJ, the positions of pattern spots on giraffe skin are inherited from the mother.
Medicine - Health
Why does each person reach a certain level and then stop?
Parents with black hair often give birth to children with black hair. Parents have the ability to run fast, often children run fast. Shy parents often have shy children.
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Sun exposure or sneezing - strange phenomenon only occurs in about 30% of people in the world
Do you know why when people go to the sun or see the sun, many people sneeze. How strange?
Medicine - Health
Baboons carry pig hearts for more than two years
German and American scientists can maintain pig hearts inside a baboon for more than two years, creating a breakthrough in the field of organ transplants.
Medicine - Health
Children 'like' father or mother?
According to scientists, parents' genetic genes are the determining factor for their height.
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Digital embryos help identify the genetic characteristics of children
New technology creates digital embryos by mixing DNA with parents, helping prospective parents know the health and genetic characteristics of a baby before deciding to h…
Medicine - Health
Is it good to study because of genetic genes?
UK scientists have just had a controversial finding that genes affect the examination results of much older children in the quality of the school or parenting and teachi…
Medicine - Health
Memory is also passed down through generations
Animal studies show that the behavior of an individual can be influenced by events that occurred in previous generations and passed down through a form of genetic memory.