| Ancient genomics pinpoint origin and rapid turnover of cattle in the Fertile Crescent Posted: 11 Jul 2019 11:13 AM PDT Ancient DNA has revealed how the prehistory of the Near East's largest domestic animal, the cow, chimes with the emergence of the first complex economies, cities and the rise and fall of the world earliest human empires. |
| Ancient epigenetic changes silence cancer-linked genes Posted: 11 Jul 2019 07:56 AM PDT A study in zebrafish indicates that some genes linked to cancers in humans have been strictly regulated throughout evolution. |
