New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age
Recruiting osteoarthritis patients with a lot of pain to clinical studies, may give incorrect results if the researcher does account for the natural variation in pain that occurs.
Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two.
A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil.
Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2?
A species of ordinary gut bacteria that we all carry flourishes when the intestinal flora is knocked out by a course of antibiotics.
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe but died out on the Italian peninsula
MEDICATION Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Statistics Denmark have analysed more than one billion prescriptions issued by general practitioners. In the long term, the analysis may help to optimise prescription trajectories, but there are still many things we do not know about the associations between diseases and treatment patterns, explains Professor Søren Brunak who has been in charge of the study.
A human genome from the Ice Age refuge in southern Spain
Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks
Insects heavily rely on bacteria for essential nutrients that are lacking in their diet.
A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques
The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire
Scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals
Restoring the 'Sutherland Nine' to their community
In search of virtual fruit, chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation
Children choose a “mystery box” more often than apes, but after a glimpse of a larger reward from the uncertain option, great apes show more curiosity
Neanderthal variant of the protein glutathione reductase increases risk for inflammatory bowel disease and vascular disease
A Covid-19 risk variant inherited from Neandertals reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV by 27 percent