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Sea sponge helps scientists unravel 700 million-year-old mystery of evolution – UNSW Newsroom
A jelly-like sea sponge has helped shed light on an elusive part of the human genome, with implications for biomedical research and healthcare.
A jelly-like sea sponge has helped shed light on an elusive part of the human genome, with implications for biomedical research and healthcare.Australian scientists have found that humans, and most likely the entire animal kingdom, share important genetic mechanisms with a jelly-like sea sponge that comes from the Great Barrier Reef.
Published in Science today, the research reveals some elements of the human genome an organisms complete set of DNA are functioning in the same way as the prehistoric…
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