3D structure of humans finally decoded

It’s quite obvious that genetics is the most important step in our evolution that we have to take and although the molecular structure of DNA has been discovered more than half a century ago, its three dimensional structure remained a mystery. However, recently a team led by researchers from Harvard University, the Broad Institute of [...]

The dawn of the mamimal? MPs back creation of human-animal embryos

  British scientists have received the green light to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban yesterday. Already a wave of contradictions and the scientific world is divided into two camps. An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill was rejected in a free [...]

‘Living dinosaur’ is fastest evolving animal

Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution performeda study of New Zealand’s “living dinosaur” the tuatara. They recovered DNA sequences from the bones of ancient tuatara which are up to 8000 years old. The conclusions they drew were amazing: despite all the ods, the tuatara has [...]

Generosity is probably somewhat genetic

We have just began to understand our genome yet there are still numerous things we fail to understand; there is a very big number of genes of which we know very little about. How we act and do and think is influenced by our genes but how exactly is this possible in some cases is [...]