As National Geographic says, probably one of the most famous cats in the world is Venus, a three-year-old tortoiseshell with a peculiar face. One half is black, with a green eye, but the other one has orange tabby stripes and a blue eye. At first, scientists thought that Venus could be a chimera, a fusion of …
Tag Archive: genetics
Feb 27
Ángel Carracedo Álvarez
He was born in Santa Comba ( A Coruña ) in 1955. He graduated in Legal Medicine. His specialty is genetics. He obtained an extraordinary prize as a Doctor in Medicine. He was the head teacher in the University High School of Legal Medicine and president of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. He is the …
May 28
Cigarette smoke affect the DNA
A group of scientists discovered that Basque and American snuff smoke and other external agents damages DNA. The study could be key to identify agents that can prevent cancer in pregnancy. So far very little is known about their response to genetic damage caused by carcinogens. Today we know that preventing these modifications, the cells …
May 21
A study published in “Nature” divided into ten possible types of breast cancer
A study published in Nature divided into ten subtypes of breast cancer. The work done at Cambridge and Canada analyzed two groups of one thousand samples each of breast cancer worldwide, with clinical data from up to ten years, and studied the mutated genes, amplicons, or more than normal activity, the inherited and acquired. From …
May 18
65 genes associated with autism are found
The journal “Nature” reported that U.S.A scientists found 65 genes related to autism. These genes are involved in the appearance of the autism in children with no family history. Today, the appearance of the autism is still mystery, but in recent years, several studies have demonstrated that has an important genetic cause. The first symptoms …
May 03
Gold and coal
People who lives in the Solomon island (Pacific Ocean) usually have black skin and hair, but a 10% of the population more or less have an specific characteristic: blond hair. A lot of people thought that this characteristic was due to the transmission of traits of European traders.People who lives in this island, thought that the reason …
Mar 25
Frogs and the city
People think that the only places where we can find new species are away from civilization. They picture big jungles in South America, home of horrible cannibals, black panthers and crazy monkeys. Sometimes, people even thinks on the bottom of the sea, deep down where even light can’t shine. But, what if I told you …
Mar 16
A plant dead 30000 years ago,revive!!
In an Arctic ice plate Russian scientists discovered a plant. This plant, Silene stenophylla, is the oldest plant regenerated (was extinct). It has white flowers and it is a fertile plant. The success was possible because of the place . Permafrost is the ice layer that is always frozen and keeps a lot of fruits, …
Mar 14
The key to eternal youth has been found!
Scientists from Nottingham University have published in Proceedings (a National Science Academy’s American magazine) that possibilities exist in an asexual planarian worm to avoid human aging. In general, divided stem cells (to heal, reproduce or growing) can’t replace exhausted cells in our body’s tissues. Because of that, cells begin to show aging signs. However, planarian …