Nestled snugly at the end of Dickinson Hall’s west wing, in a room with bleached concrete floors, bleached counters and bleached walls, an ornithologist grinds the 2,000-year-old liquid-nitrogen drenched bones of a fossil rail—a type of bird—with a porcelain mortar and pestle until they yield a powd
Ultra-violet light rapidly degrades DNA, creating a “DNA-free” environment within
nine butterfly researchers from the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., Peru and Germany used DNA
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plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the DNA
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He also did not imagine that a DNA test of the tooth, conducted by scientists at
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Plants are DNA hoarders.
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When Charles Darwin journeyed to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s, he collected some mysterious birds that later helped shape his theory of evolution by natural selection. Dubbed „Darwin’s finches,“ they became famous as an example of adaptive radiation, in which animals evolve from a common ances
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Take a look at this box of butterflies. How many species do you see? You might be tempted to divide them into those with “tails” on the lower wings and those without. Or you might lean toward grouping them by color, parsing out the yellow from the blue or orange. But all of these butterfli
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The history of the Caribbean’s original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology. An international team led by Harvard Medical School’s David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the l
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A trendy holiday gift within a decade may be a hand-held device that instantly identifies any species from a snippet of animal tissue, say Florida Museum of Natural History researchers. That may be possible thanks to scientific advances that include the first test quantifying the effectivenes
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DNA can unite species that were thought to be different. – Further studies of their DNA revealed that they were actually different life stages
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