• 了解人类基因控制方式

    13-01-18 Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. In a new study, published in the journal Cell, they identified the DNA sequences that bind to over four hundred proteins...

  • 非洲锥虫病的传播可能与野生动物有关

    13-01-18 Wild animals may be a key contributor to the continuing spread of African sleeping sickness, new research published in PLOS Computational Biology shows. The West African form of the disease, also known as Gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis(非...

  • 黑猩猩具有公平感

    13-01-15 Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are the first to show chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human. Working with colleagues from Georgia State University,...

  • 蝌蚪尾巴再生能力研究取得突破

    13-01-14 Scientists at The University of Manchester have made a surprising finding after studying how tadpoles re-grow their tails which could have big implications for research into human healing and regeneration. It is generally appreciated that frogs and...

  • 人类的祖先长什么样?

    13-01-14 A new method of establishing hair and eye colour from modern forensic(法院的) samples can also be used to identify details from ancient human remains, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Investigative Genetics. The...

  • Born to Win

    13-01-08 Each human being is born as something unique, something that never existed before. Each person is born with what he needs to win at life. A normal person can see, hear, touch, taste, and think for himself. Each has his own unique potentials---his ca...

  • 科学家成功解码肺孢子虫的基因组

    12-12-29 Scientists have sequenced the genome of the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii, an advancement that could help identify new targets for drugs to treat and prevent Pneumocystis pneumonia, a common and often deadly infection in immunocompromised(免疫功能...

  • 克隆人类可能在50年内实现

    12-12-23 获得今年诺贝尔医学奖的英国科学家约翰格登爵士表示,未来50年内,那些在意外中失去孩子的父母将有可能通过克隆技术得到孩子的复制品。 Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone copies to replace them within 50 years, a British scientist wh...

  • 细菌使我们感到饥饿?

    12-12-20 Over the last half decade, it has become increasingly clear that the normal gastrointestinal(胃肠的) (GI) bacteria play a variety of very important roles in the biology of human and animals. Now Vic Norris of the University of Rouen, France, and c...

  • 拳头是发泄愤怒的工具

    12-12-20 Men whacked(重击) punching bags for a University of Utah study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity(手灵巧度) needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists and fight. Compar...