What makes fingerprints such a brilliant way of telling people apart is that they are virtually unique: fingerprints develop through an essentially random process according to the code in your DNA (the genetic recipe that tells your body how to develop). Because the environment in the womb ...
Agriculture is the area that has used biotechnology for the longest. Selective breeding has been done by humans for thousands of years, and has recently been taken to a whole new level through genetic engineering. These kinds of crops are called genetically modified organisms (or GMOs). ...
Briefly explain how forensic anthropology was important to the identification of victims of the Daegu subway disaster. Anthropology: Anthropology is the study of humans and human behavior. It is a broad field of academic disciplines that includes culture, socie...
While artificial intelligence becomes an ever more powerful tool, humans will always play an essential role in wildlife identification — including amateur as well as expert zoologists.Instant Wildis ZSL’s free citizen science app that anyone with a smartphone can use to identify animals in camera...
Analyses of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data have enabled researchers to estimate the timing of SARS-CoV-2 spillover into humans; identify some of the transmission routes in its global spread; determine infection rates and how they change within a region; and identify the emergence of some new varian...
Even when a specific biomarker of a given mycotoxin is identified in humans, it remains difficult to establish the relationship with a given illness because of above quoted reasons and because of the genotoxic and epigenetic effects of mycotoxins. These can be strongly influenced by the metabolome ...