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Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys

...when people had contact with chimpanzee blood from hunting and butchering the animals, Worobey said. The team's research article, "A Challenge to the Ancient Origin of SIVagm Based on African Green Monkey Mitochondrial Genomes," Previous research had sketched out the family trees, or phylogenies, of the fou...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...ebrate animals) around the time that humans began hunting seals and whales, ancient eggshell fragments reveal. According to Steven Emslie of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, and William Patterson of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, it suggests that when humans removed krill-eat...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...disorder of substantial interest to the lab. While hunting for new genes, they found portions of DNA that had been copied from the mitochondria, the energy-making apparatus of human cells that has its own small genome. These mitochondrial sequences are known as numts. When they expanded their study across ...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

... 16th-century heyday. These days it attracts those hunting for a different type of good fortune, some longed-for relief from rheumatism, arthritis, asthma and skin conditions. "The secret of its medical success comes from the ideal combination of three factors -- a constant temperature between 37 and 41 de...

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