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| The Human Genome Project, the biggest biomedical project humans have ever endeavored to the date, greatly accelerated the advancement of DNA sequencing technologies. Three generations of DNA sequencing technologies have been developed in the last three decades, and we are at the crossroads of the second and third generations. The upgrade to the third-generation single molecule sequencing techno... more |
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Novel genes are so called because their functions differ from their parental genes. While several theories have been explored to explain the diversification of gene functions, including duplication and retrotransposition, the origin of novel genes remains a longstanding debate in evolutionary biology, and understanding this process can help scientists to better understand how humans evolved.
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| High-altitude hypoxic environments are an extreme test of survival for humans and mammals alike. The Qinghai Tibetan Plateau is one such environment. Dogs have followed humans in their settlement patterns since ancient times, even to the wilds of the Tibetan plateau, and share similar adaptive abilities with humans to living at such extreme altitudes, by while the adaptive abilities of humans h... more |
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The reason of Yunnan Province being an area with high frequency of HIV is complicated. One of the possible explanations is the special geographic location of Yunnan with miles of shared borders with several south-eastern Asia countries which lets HIV easily spread across borders.
Recently, the research group headed by Prof. ZHENG Yongtang from Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of Chinese A... more |
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| The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by a lentivirus. The treatment of HIV/AIDS usually includes the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs to act on different viral targets, which is also known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), as the essential components in HAART, are ab... more |
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