http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news177083943.html Biology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:59:42 EST news177083943 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta. http://www.physorg.com/news174733069.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:58:40 EST news174733069 Scientists from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) have found two new genes that together double a person's risk of developing melanoma. http://www.physorg.com/news166098212.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:23:56 EST news166098212 Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well. http://www.physorg.com/news165772613.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:57:13 EST news165772613 The powerful Habsburg dynasty ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 to 1700 but when King Charles II died in 1700 without any children from his two marriages, the male line died out and the French Bourbon dynasty came to power in Spain. Reporting in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, April 15, Gonzalo Alvarez and colleagues at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, provide genetic evidence to support the historical evidence that the high frequency of inbreeding (mating between closely related individuals) within the dynasty was a major cause for the extinction of its male line. http://www.physorg.com/news158994852.html Biology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:14:33 EST news158994852 (PhysOrg.com) -- The giant cats that roamed the British Isles, as well as Europe and North America, as recently as 13,000 years ago were lions rather than giant jaguars or tigers, a team led by Oxford University scientists has proved. http://www.physorg.com/news157735263.html Biology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:21:52 EST news157735263 Until credible sightings popped up three years ago, the scientific world was in agreement that ivory-billed woodpeckers had gone the way of the dodo. A new study conducted by University of Georgia researchers reveals that the ivory-billed woodpecker could have persisted if as few as five mated pairs survived the extensive habitat loss during the early 1900's. A new paper published in the online journal Avian Conservation and Ecology by researchers at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources adds another angle to the ongoing debate about modern existence of the birds. http://www.physorg.com/news151334689.html Biology Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:24:49 EST news151334689 The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on January 8th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. http://www.physorg.com/news150642011.html Biology Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:00:11 EST news150642011