Tag Archives: DNA

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[ad_1] The George Church Society wants to put genomes on block stringsDeanne Fitzmaurice / NGS / Alamy By Alice Klein A new company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church wants people to …

[ad_1] Some 11 million years ago, small arboreal primates closely related to the modern-day titi monkey found themselves stranded on makeshift rafts of vegetation south american rivers to islands of the Caribbean. …

[ad_1] Analysis of ancient DNA of a mysterious extinct monkey named Xenothrix – which displays bizarre body characteristics very different to any living monkey – has revealed that it was in fact …

[ad_1] According to new research, the titi monkey from South America (pictured) is a close relative of the extinct monkey Xenothrix. Image: ZSL For nearly 100 years, scientists have been unable to …

[ad_1] A photo of a titi monkey, the closest surviving parent of Xenothrix, also called a Jamaican monkey. The Xenothrix have disappeared, but researchers have been able to extract an old DNA …

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[ad_1] Experts from the Zoological Society of London, London's Natural History Museum, and the American Museum of Natural HistoryDNA samples from a now-extinct monkey called Xenothrix in an effort to understand why …

[ad_1] Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have established the trigger for catastrophic events that occur within the chromosomes of cancer cells and lead to cancer cell death. …

[ad_1] Image reproduced with the kind permission of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. A Pennsylvania-based ornithologist observed a warbler bird in his garden and immediately realized that this bird was unlike any …