An international team of researchers from UK, Germany, and China discovered the oldest ancestor of man, and probably a broad spectrum of another species, writes the BBC News. The researchers claim that it is about the fossilized remains of a creature of 540 million years. The microscopic marine animal is the earliest stage of the evolution which leads to fish and eventually to … [Read more...]
According to the science, the age at which we have the first child is written in the DNA
The scientists identified 12 areas of DNA sequence associated with the age at which a person has the first child, and with the total number of children that will have along the life. This study, to which worked over 250 sociologists, biologists and geneticists from several institutions in the world, was published on Tuesday in 'Nature Genetics', informs the Science Daily. About … [Read more...]
The human hair could help the criminologists identify the authors of severe infractions easier
The researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, states that the human hair could be as efficient as the genetic material samples in criminology, because it contains mutations of some proteins that keeps even 250 years. If the conventional techniques are not enough, the study of the DNA evidences remains the only method that can used by the criminologists … [Read more...]