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4,800-Year-Old Teeth Yield First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
From ancient vertebrates to modern medicine: Tracing cellular energy evolution to improve rare disease diagnosis
Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...
Change trackers: New consortium to catalog DNA mutations across human lifetime
From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)21h
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Mesopotamia and Egypt, researchers find
Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...
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Detection of Tumor DNA in Human Plasma with a Functional PLL-Based Surface Layer and Plasmonic Biosensing | ACS Sensors - ACS Publications
The low-fouling property of the new surface layer allowed us to detect wild-type and KRAS p.G12D-mutated DNA in human plasma at the attomolar level (∼2.5 aM) and KRAS p.G13D-mutated tumor DNA in ...