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🧬 Elefanten bekommen viel seltener Krebs als Menschen – dank „Zombie-Genen“ wie LIF6! Diese reanimierten Gene helfen, entartete Zellen zu zerstören. Was wir von den sanften Riesen lernen können? Mehr dazu im spannenden Artikel 👉 tagesspiegel.de/wissen/untote- #Wissenschaft #Krebsforschung #Gene #Elefanten 🐘 #newz

Der Tagesspiegel · Untote Helfershelfer: Zombie-Gene, die vor Krebs schützenBy Sascha Karberg

First-Ever #Intersex Southern #RightWhale Discovered Among 36-Year-Old Crossbow Skin Samples
Like humans, #whales#chromosomes most commonly express either XX or XY for female or male sex, respectively. However, a little something called the sex-determining region Y #gene (or SRY) threw a spanner in the works, because it only exists on the Y chromosome, and yet upon further testing, XX Eau10b was positive for it.
iflscience.com/first-ever-inte
archive.ph/HTBGT

First-Ever Intersex Southern Right Whale Discovered Among 36-Year-Old Crossbow Skin Samples
IFLScience · First-Ever Intersex Southern Right Whale Discovered Among 36-Year-Old Crossbow Skin SamplesBy Rachael Funnell

#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17
23andMe sold genetic data of 15M people for $256M to a #pharmaceutical #Regeneron. 23andMe does not perform full genome sequences. It instead does #DNA #genotyping, which look at parts of #genome that vary from person to person.
Sale to Regeneron means #gene data collected by 23andMe will be used for development of new #drugs, which felt like the most likely and perhaps best-case scenario for the company’s bankruptcy.
404media.co/23andme-sale-shows

404 Media · 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $1723andMe sold the genetic data of 15 million people for $256 million to a pharmaceutical company called Regeneron.