Researchers are reporting new findings on how bacteria involved in gum disease can travel throughout the body, exuding toxins connected with Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and aspiration pneumonia. They detected …read more Source:: Science
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Study challenges evolution of FOXP2 as human-specific language gene
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FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a new paper, researchers challenge …read more Source:: Science
The headache of adapting to the cold, literally
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A common genetic variant implicated in migraine headaches may have proliferated because it helped early humans adapt to cold weather in northern climates. …read more Source:: Science
Double trouble: asteroid, volcanoes implicated in dinosaur doom
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was a combination of calamities – an asteroid strike followed by vast volcanic eruptions half a world away – that doomed the dinosaurs and many other …read more Source:: UKScienceNews