Genetics
Covid-19
Research during quarantine
Fernando Carvall“When I saw the results, I thought: this virus is going to infect everyone” The first reports about the disease in China sparked my curiosity. The Chinese discovered that the virus enters the cells via the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 [ACE2] receptor. Its expression depends on the ACE2 gene, which plays an important role in... View Article
By Redação
Genetics
Gene affects the height of Peruvians
Genetic alterations may partly explain why Peruvians are one of the shortest peoples in the world
By Redação
Interview
Carlos Guerra Schrago: The theory and practice of evolution
The discipline that seeks to reconstruct the histories of species is itself evolving, according to UFRJ biologist
By Fabrício Marques and Maria Guimarães
Biology
Why females live longer
The difference in lifespan between the two sexes, the researchers noted, is not due to different aging rates
By Redação
Genetics
America, the African mosaic
The transatlantic slave trade shaped the genetic makeup of populations across North and South America
By Redação
Interview
Gene therapy on the horizon
American biochemist Jennifer Doudna, from the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the best-known names behind the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique
By Redação
Paleontology
The extinct manatee of Rondônia
Newly discovered species lived in the Madeira River region 45,000 years ago
Genetics
Neanderthal genes in Africa
According to the research, Europeans and Asians have about three times as much Neanderthal DNA as Africans
By Redação
Population genetics
The last of the Tupiniquim
Indigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery
Genetics
A molecular lifespan clock
Biologists analyzed the genome of 252 animal species and found a genetic trait that they propose serves as a molecular clock for lifespan
By Redação
Genetics
The distinctive Habsburg Jaw
Successive marriages between close relatives may have been the genetic cause of the highly pronounced jawline among members of the Habsburg imperial line
By Redação
Pesquisa fapesp 20 years
Legacies of the genome
Magazine followed the evolution of sequencing projects that improved disease diagnosis and led to the development of innovative treatments
Genetics
Understanding the Brazilian genome
Researchers launched an initiative with the aim of mapping the genome of 15,000 Brazilians aged 35–74
By Redação
Molecular biology
Sugarcane mapped
A team coordinated by Brazilian scientists finds over 370,000 genes when sequencing a commercial cultivar of the plant
Photolab
Biological engineering
Lab-made vascular cells actively produce a coagulation factor
By Redação
Genetics
Jacobina controversy
Authors divided over article on the spread of DNA from transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes used in an experiment in Bahia
By Diego Freire
Science reporting
Explaining complexity
Study mapping genetic influence on same-sex sexual behavior uses novel approach to reporting findings