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The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn. According to a groundbreaking study published in Nature, modern humans may have inherited 20% of their DNA ... that our paper on admixture ...

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Scientists have captured the first detailed 'molecular movie' showing DNA being unzipped ... without harming human cells." Dr Alfredo De Biasio, senior author on the paper from KAUST and the ...

Additionally, the scientists unexpectedly captured for the first time a detailed picture of how the "engine" driving the cellular replication machinery moves along DNA in human cells. Their ...

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Not the best part of human nature ... case of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman and a young mother who died in 1951 of cervical cancer aged 31. Her cancer cells and DNA were taken - without her ...

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There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

Researchers used powerful tech to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which genes are active and how DNA is organised within each cell.

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