12-04-05 It has long been recognized that autism runs in families, suggesting a substantial（大量的，实质的） genetic component to the disease. Yet few genes have so far been identified and the underlying genetic architecture of autism -- that is, how many g...

12-03-29 A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome（核糖体） profilin...

12-03-08 More than 99 percent of Antarctic blue whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century, but the first circumpolar（极地附近的） genetic study of these critically endangered whales has found a surprisingly high level of diversity amo...

12-02-16 In the beginning was the word -- yes, but where exactly? Last year, Quentin Atkinson, a cultural anthropologist at Auckland University in New Zealand, proposed that the cradle of language could be localized in the southwest of Africa. The report, wh...

11-12-09 A study of South American songbirds（黄莺） completed by the Department of Biology at Queen's University and the Argentine Museum of Natural History, has discovered these birds differ dramatically in colour and song yet show very little genetic diff...

11-10-30 Scientists including those from Queen's University have discovered that taking regular aspirin halves the risk of developing hereditary（遗传的） cancers. Hereditary cancers are those which develop as a result of a gene fault inherited from a parent...

11-10-26 For years, scientists believed the vast phenotypic（表型的） differences between humans and chimpanzees would be easily explained -- the two species must have significantly different genetic makeups. However, when their genomes were later sequenced,...

11-10-19 Genetic resistance to a parasitic nematode（线虫） that infects sheep has been discovered by a team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The researchers are the first...

11-09-27 New research presented at the European Society for Paediatric（儿科的） Endocrinology（内分泌学） meeting has found a genetic region that may control testicle development in the fetus. Men have XY sex chromosomes, and the development of testes is th...

11-09-22 Scientists have made an exciting breakthrough in unraveling（解开，阐明） the genetic basis of two debilitating neurodegenerative disorders, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS肌萎缩侧索硬化症 ) and frontotemporal dementia ( FTD额颞叶型失智症 ). Two...