What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...
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What if human DNA stopped mutating? Cancer could disappear, but evolution would come to a halt
Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be like if that stopped? What causes your DNA to change? How would your life ...
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A human brain gene called BC200 can still jump to new spots in our DNA
A gene that is switched on in human brain cells has turned out to be a jumping gene that never fully gave up jumping. The gene, BC200, descends from a mobile piece of DNA, and researchers led by ...
The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much ...
Humans walk upright, carry brains three times larger than those of our closest relatives, and possess slender, distinctly ...
Before 2026, no documentation existed of a human gene that was both mobile and required for bodily functions. However, ...
Israeli and Japanese researchers report in Nature that reduced cartilage cushioning molecules, an evolutionary trade-off tied ...
A new review published in the journal *Frontiers in Genetics* identifies transposable elements—often historically dismissed ...
A new study that investigates the genetics of people and malaria parasites has found that people with the sickle cell variant ...
Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 ...
A new review published in *Frontiers in Immunology* introduces a framework for translating evolutionary animal defenses into ...
New research reveals genetic changes that may explain why humans are more prone to osteoarthritis than other great apes.
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