World’s oldest DNA sequenced on mammoth
The world’s oldest DNA ever sequenced, dating back more than a million years, was recovered from mammoth teeth buried in permafrost in Siberia, a study … Read more
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Who is the “closest aquatic relative to being h …
An international team of scientists, in which the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) participates, achieved sequencing the Australian lungfish genome, which could help to … Read more
Vaccines: what do we know about possible side effects?
Pfizer-BioNtech, Moderna and the AstraZeneca horizon: if the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were to give the green light for the English product on January 29, … Read more
Covid-19: what do we know about virus mutations in South Africa?
While the virus is constantly mutating (over 12,000 mutations have been identified over the past year), a variant of concern has been reported by the … Read more
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n The pandemic has given rise to scientific acronyms, such as PCR tests, to which we are now familiar. The arrival of vaccines against Covid-19, … Read more
Sequencing of the virus: a French delay
The genomic sequencing platform at the Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil will spin its machines to analyze hundreds of samples from Covid-19 patients to find out … Read more
Sars-CoV-2, a virus of still unknown origin
Where does Sars-CoV-2 come from? The origins of the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic remain unclear. After the thesis of the pangolin, that of … Read more
Why can’t RNA vaccines against Covid-19 modify our genome?
José M. Jiménez Guardeño / Ana María Ortega Prieto Updated:16/12/2020 12:19h save Of all the vaccine candidates to prevent Covid-19, those developed by Pfizer / BioNTech … Read more
Scientists develop technique to trace origin of COVID-19 in 4 hours | Science and Ecology | DW
A group of Australian scientists developed a pioneering, fast and highly accurate genomic sequencing technique that will help determine the source of unknown COVID-19 cases … Read more
Covid-19: what does the new distinction between “positive” and “weak positive” correspond to in the result of PCR tests?
Question asked on 10/08/2020 Hello, The analysis of the results of RT-PCR tests that measure the viral load of Sars-CoV-2 in a patient has been … Read more