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中国对西伯利亚虎实行“计划生育”
17-05-08 Chinese researchers are using artificial breeding to control the population of captive-bred Siberian Tigers and improve their genetic quality. 中国的科研人员正在使用人工授精法控制圈养繁殖的西伯利亚虎的数量并提高它们的遗传品质。 There are about 1,000...
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科学家发现人类起源于外星的证据
17-04-10 The notion that life on Earth has alien origins is nothing new, but a pair of researchers believe that they have cracked an ancient code which prove that life was planted on Earth by extraterrestrial beings. 地球生命起源的外星说并不新鲜，但是两名研...
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美国将上市转基因苹果 不会氧化变色
17-02-03 After years of development, protest and regulatory red tape, the first genetically modified, non-browning apples will soon go on sale in the United States. 历经多年研发与非议，经受了监管部门条条框框的约束，终于，首款防褐变转基因苹果就要在美国开售了...
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研究：生过孩子的女性老得更快
16-11-23 Women who give birth may be biologically older than women who dont, a new study suggests. 一项新研究发现，生过孩子的女性在生理上会比那些没有生过的更老。 For the study, the researchers analyzed information from 1,556 US women ages 20 to 44 who took p...
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遗传与家庭环境是慢性疼痛的两大危险因素
16-08-18 Both genetic factors and family environment contribute to risk for chronic pain, and contributions of many genes contribute to risk of both chronic pain and major depressive disorder (MDD), according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine. The re...
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家犬在欧洲与亚洲都曾被驯化
16-06-03 The question, Where do domestic dogs come from?, has vexed scholars for a very long time. Some argue that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claim this happened in Central Asia or China. A new paper, published in Science, sugge...
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动作迟缓的蠕虫对气候变化反应迅速
16-04-28 Evolution can go quickly when it has to - at least for small organisms. Researchers exposed a natural setting in Denmark to artificial climate change and discovered that soil just half a degree warmer caused the genome of small worms to change surpr...
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葡萄酒酵母的基因组缺乏遗传多样性
16-04-08 Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In many cases, yeast strains sold by different companies were almost genetically identical. The result...
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parents' math anxiety 父母的“数学焦虑”
16-03-30 If the thought of a math test makes you break out in a cold sweat, Mom or Dad may be partly to blame. 如果想到数学测验会让你出一身冷汗，你的爸妈可能要承担些责任。 The researchers believe the link between parents math anxiety and childrens math perfo...
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10万年前穴居人与智人曾有过混血
16-02-18 A multidisciplinary team which included participants from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago. This puts back the previously first-known case of a h...
