The analysis marks the first time historical DNA has been used to trace the descendants and distant cousins of enslaved people, researchers said.
Tag: Genetics and Heredity
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Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry
For the first time, the New York Botanical Garden has a chief scientist who hails from the same region as so much of its collections.
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Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct
Researchers at Stanford devised a strange new molecule that could lead to drugs that arm genes and make cancers work against themselves.
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The Vanishing Family
They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age. This is the story of what it’s like to live with those odds.