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The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate

Environment

The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate

Sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage and a dozen other vegetables are all the same species, Brassica oleracea. Now we have finally discovered their common ancestor

Features

Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

Humans

A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related

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Amyloid plaques forming between neurons. Beta-amyloid protein disrupting nerve cells function in a brain with Alzheimer's disease

Health

Alzheimer’s disease progression slowed using CRISPR technique in mice

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Genetic variants may influence the likelihood we will smoke or drink alcohol

Health

Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and alcohol use

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Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest

Life

DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

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Maize field

Life

'Unselfish' genes that make plants cooperate could boost crop yields

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The Amami spiny rat

Life

A rat without a Y chromosome could be a glimpse of our genetic future

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The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

Humans

The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

Features

Modern humans that had not long left Africa may have evolved an X chromosome that carried

Humans

Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus

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Plague of mice

Life

Gene drive could be used to wipe out invasive mice on islands

A ‘gene drive’ that spreads through a population and makes females infertile has been demonstrated to work in a mammal for the first time

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Environment

Genetically modified mosquitoes cut the insect's number by 96 per cent

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Life

High school student is first to sequence the angelfish genome

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Health

Dyslexia linked to 42 genetic variants in biggest study of its kind

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Humans

12,000 genetic variants affect height in people with European ancestry

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