Researchers have uncovered a mysterious gene in the genetic code of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 – which is virtually hidden from view in the genome of the virus, and yet largely ignored. The newly called gene – is called ORF3d An example of this is the so-called overlapping gene: a type …
Read More »We may finally know what killed the woolly rhinos, and they were not humans
A woolly brown rhinoceros that waited two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing about 14,000 years ago. Was his death caused by humans, or by the warming climate of the time? A new study by a Swedish and Russian team of scientists examining DNA fragments of the remains …
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