A team led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, studied a dried blood sample stored in a gourd that supposedly was kept as a souvenir from the execution of the French King Louis XVI by guillotine in 1793.

STAFF | OCTOBER 25TH, 2010

The p53 protein is very important in protecting the body against cancer due to its ability to suppress tumors. A study involving a UAB researcher has discovered what may have been its evolutionary origin.

Staff | June 4, 2010

The U.S. firm Genentech has presented the first genome of a lung cancer cell alongside the genome of a healthy cell from the same individual. This will allow for comparative studies into what the genetic alterations are that trigger cancer.

Staff | 27 may 2010

An international team of researchers led by scientists at Uppsala University in Sweden have achieved a breakthrough in genetic studies of domestic animals by demonstrating the genomic evolution of the modern chicken. The results are published in the journal 'Nature'.

A.R. | 12 march 2010