Professor Eske Willerslev and his PhD student Morten Rasmussen, from Centre of Excellence in GeoGenetics, The Natural History Museum at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, led the international team of scientists responsible for the findings. Professor Willerslev,38 , and his team grabbed international attention last year when they reconstructed the complete mitochondrial genomes of a [...]
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For the first time an ancient genome of an extinct human being has been reconstructed in detail
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How plants ‘feel’ the temperature rise
January 9th, 2010 admin Plants are incredibly temperature sensitive and can perceive changes of as little as one degree Celsius. Now, a report in the January 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows how they not only ‘feel’ the temperature rise, but also coordinate an appropriate response — activating hundreds of genes and deactivating others; [...]
