Scientists Have Updated The Human Genome To Make It More Inclusive

Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity's genetic diversity.

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    12/12/2024 - 9:20 am | View Link
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    An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.
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    12/8/2024 - 9:32 pm | View Link
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    CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool widely used by scientists to cut and modify DNA sequences to turn genes on and off or ...
    12/4/2024 - 2:59 pm | View Link
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