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Wildlife researcher photographs rare Sumatran rabbit
Using camera traps, wildlife researchers including doctoral candidate Jennifer McCarthy and environmental conservation professor Todd Fuller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently captured photographs of one of the rarest animals on earth, the Sumatran striped rabbit. They say it may now be found only in two remote national parks on the Indonesian island.
Source: Universi...
Cancer may require simpler genetic mutations than previously thought
Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven't known how a deletion in one gene from one parent, called a "hemizygous" deletion, can contribute to cancer.
Source: Harvard Medical School - Discipline: Cancer
Skulls, Lasers, and 3D Imaging Bring the Dead to Life
Experts at the Smithsonian are using 3D scans of artifacts, like this 19th-century explorer's skull, to recreate the past.
Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Anthropology
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