Editorial: Fear unfounded
With Britain recently deciding to proceed with draft regulations on the mitochondria replacement technique for preventing women from transmitting mitochondrial disorders to their children, the method joins the list of…
Category: Mitochondrial DNA
Editorial: Indo-African gene admixture
Published in The Hindu on July 28, 2011 India is a classic example of genetic potpourri. Though the Ancestral South Indians (ASIs) found in the four southern States are not…
Editorial: Neanderthal genes in us
Published in The Hindu on May 15, 2010 Did Neanderthals and modern humans interbreed? While several methods, including the study of mitochondrial DNA of Neanderthals, failed to resolve this longstanding…
Editorial: A new human species
Published in The Hindu on April 10, 2010 Nearly 10 years after the genome of a living individual was first sequenced, and shortly after the sequencing of the genome of…
New species in human’s family tree found
Published in The Hindu on March 25, 2010 A team of scientists has successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a hominin who had lived in the Altai Mountain region of…
Editorial: Hair reveals our past
Published in The Hindu on February 24, 2010 In less than 10 years after the human genome from a living individual was first sequenced, scientists have successfully sequenced a complete…
Now, ancient human genome studied
Published in The Hindu on February 11, 2010 For the first time ever the genome of an ancient human has been studied. The about 4,000-year-old sample studied was a human…
Editorial: A giant leap in sequencing Neanderthal genome
Published in The Hindu on February 25, 2009 The successful completion of a rough draft of the Neanderthal genome — this is the first time that a genome of an…
