Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...rder to resolve the many questions surrounding the genealogy of the 18th and 19th dynasties. Further DNA testing is expected to help resolve such mysteries as the identity of the mummy of Tuthmosis I: Is it really the mummy of the mighty warrior-king of the 18th dynasty or just the remains of a nobleman" And...New gene mutation identified in common type of dementia
...nulin in an extended family in southern Italy. The genealogy of this family has been reconstructed for 15 generations, going back to the 16th century; 36 family members have had frontotemporal dementia. For this study, DNA tests were conducted on 70 family members, including 13 people with the disease. This i...Irish potato famine disease came from South America
...histories, the scientists used the pathogens' gene genealogy to track migration patterns of the different strains, or haplotypes, of the pathogen. In essence, Ristaino, former grad student Luis Gomez-Alpizar and Dr. Ignazio Carbone, all of NC State's Department of Plant Pathology, figured out how the pathogen'...New DNA study helps explain unique diversity among Melanesians
...etic backgrounds. "In this part of the world, the genealogy extends back more than 35,000 years, when Neanderthals still occupied Europe," he adds. "These island groups were isolated at the edge of the human species range for an incredible length of time, not quite out in the middle of the Pacific, but beyon...Research upsetting some notions about honey bees
...fornia-Irvine, and one private producer traced the genealogy of honey bees. Two branches originate in Africa. The honey bee is not native to North America; it was introduced from Europe for honey production in the early 1600s, Johnston said. Subspecies were introduced from Italy in 1859, and later from Spain,...Sweet yet sophisticated: Honey bee genome lends insight into sociality, sensation and sex
... 1339-1344. [DOI: 10.1101/gr.5680406] The genealogy of the royal (protein) lineage In honey bees, the queens are not of royal blood, but royal jelly: they become sexually mature only after being chosen by workers from the previous generation to perpetually receive royal jelly, a viscous substance ...Breast cancer genetics and more -- press release from PLoS Medicine
...k for breast cancer. They then used a computerized genealogy of the Icelandic population to study the relationships between the Cys557Ser variant and familial clustering of breast cancer. The protein encoded by BARD1 interacts with the protein encoded by BRCA1; defects in BRCA1 are known to increase the risk...Tree of Life project grows more leaves and branches
...branches" all the time. The project is basically a genealogy of life on Earth coupled with information about the characteristics of individual species and groups of organisms. Having such scientific data available on the Web makes the information accessible to a wide range of scientists, spurring new collabora...Genealogy of scaly reptiles rewritten by new research
...when a species adapts to changing conditions. For genealogy research this can be a problem if two unrelated species change in the same way, resulting in false evidence of relationships. The new tree is based exclusively on comparisons of the molecular structure of the animals' genes. "Although the molecular...Stories of descent: Deep genealogy
... Science Museum will hold a public program on deep genealogy from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m on Thursday, July 21, 2005 with writer Steve Olson, author of MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY: GENES, RACE, AND OUR COMMON ORIGINS. The author will trace five to ten generations to find family trees that overlap, or might overlap if b...Temple engineers recieve NSF grant to develop interactive high school biology curriculum
...er crime scene, the Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings genealogy debate, and the origin theory of Homo sapiens. "We want students to learn that there are different ways of applying a scientific method," said Brian P. Butz, director of ISAC and principal investigator on the NSF grant. "For example, we want them to......cer Registry in the context of deCODE's nationwide genealogy database. This enabled Dr. Amundadottir and her team to establish how often cancers occurred in first through fifth degree relatives of some 32,000 cancer patients over the past 50 years. For 16 of the 27 cancers studied, the results indicate that...Genetic predisposition can play an important role in development of lung cancer
...ith lung cancer list from the ICR. "The nationwide genealogy database used in our study provided a means for uncovering the familial component by revealing more connections between patients, missed in most other populations," the authors write. The researchers found that a familial factor for lung cancer was ...