In a landmark achievement, researchers have fully decoded the entire genomes of six different ape species: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan, and siamang gibbon. This monumental achievement, detailed in the Nature article titled “What makes us human? Milestone ape genomes promise clues,” offers unprecedented insights into our closest relatives and, by extension, ourselves. …
Imagine a world where we understand the exact workings behind when we feel sleepy or why at certain times of the day, we’re bursting with energy. On April 30th, 1994, a piece of this complex puzzle was placed when scientists at Northwestern University reported in Science magazine a groundbreaking discovery—a gene in mice that controls …