Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...opatra. The fifth pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, her reign in the 15th century BC was longer than any other female ruler of an indigenous dynasty Most of the 18th dynasty royal mummies were moved away from their original tombs in the Valley of the Kings by the priests of the 21st dynasty fearing desecratio...Cold climate produced by algae contributed to onset of multicellular life
...ide level and ended the severe glaciations and the reign of unicellular algae, initiating the development of a modern-type climate....ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 13, 2006
...racker, out goes Y-O-U!" For Russet Burbank's long reign as top potato for French fry production in the United States may be in jeopardy after scientists have muted the genes that left Russet Ranger undesirable for French fries. Caius M. Rommens and colleagues in Idaho describe their successful modificati...Blame our evolutionary risk of cancer on body mass
...tion was willing to forgo the benefits in order to reign in cancer. The results cannot be directly related to humans, but Gorbunova set up the study to produce very strong across-the-board indicators. It's clear that evolution has found that the length of time an organism is alive has little effect on how...Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census
...table before the extinction event that ended their reign of global dominance. Dodson, however, warns that the picture of the fossil record at the time of extinction is not resolved enough to say definitively. "We have enough information to say for certain that, within six million years of the meteorite's ...Realising potential of renewable resources wins Queens Award for University of York
...uced following the 40th Anniversary of the Queen's reign in 1992, the prizes rank alongside the Queen's Awards for Industry. They are given biennially for "work of exceptional quality and of broad benefit either nationally or internationally." CNAP, which is part of the University's Department of Biology, ......eammates to catch the extra balls, confusion would reign on the field. UF researchers, writing in the journal Brain, identified an analogous situation in the brains of mice with a version of the hereditary disorder phenylketonuria, or PKU: A flood of an amino acid found in nearly all foods bombards certain...