Sentences with phrase «studying ancient diseases»
What are we learning from studying ancient diseases?
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Our guests will be two experts on studying ancient diseases with two different methods — using ancient DNA or studying fossil bones.
Not exact matches
That's the conclusion of a study that assessed 103 ancient and contemporary languages using a technique normally used to study the evolution and spread of disease.
In 30 years of studying diseases revealed in the fossil record, Poinar has documented the ancient presence of such diseases as malaria, leishmania, and others.
Study of the genetic and environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis in ancient people may offer insights into this common modern disease.»
Further study of the genetic and environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis in ancient people may offer insights into this common modern disease.»
«The study of ancient microbiomes helps us understand the evolutionary history of human health and disease,» says Professor Frank Rühli, a senior author of the study and Head of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zürich.
Tomas Marques - Bonet of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra noted that studying gene flow between ancient humans such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and the ancestors of modern humans has revealed numerous genes under selection that affect disease and an individual's traits.
Beyond that, ancient DNA offers the promise of studying not only the movements of our distant ancestors, but also the evolution of traits and susceptibilities to diseases.
While many studies provided molecular evidence for the presence of infectious diseases in ancient populations, leading to deep insights into the evolution of such diseases, only a few reports on the recovery of blood from mummified bodies are available.
He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).
Previous studies indicate that some inherited disorders do not have significantly different prevalence across both the purebred and mixed - breed dog populations [6] which may represent ancient disease liability genes that preceded breed formation that are now distributed throughout the canine population as a whole or reflect recent purebred contributions to mixed - breed individuals.