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Incubated at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and supported by São Paulo Research Foundation- FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE), BIOinFOOD is a startup that is developing a rapid covid -19 diagnostic test based on a patent application filed by students at UNICAMP’s Genomics and Bioenergy Laboratory. The test is based on a biosensor consisting of a genetically modified brewer’s yeast [...]

The tube anemone Isarachnanthus nocturnus is only 15 cm long but has the largest mitochondrial genome of any animal sequenced to date, with 80,923 base pairs. The human mitochondrial genome (mitogenome), for example, comprises 16,569 base pairs. Tube anemones (Ceriantharia) are the focus of an article recently published in Scientific Reports describing the findings of a study led by Sérgio Nascimento Stampar, a professor in São Paulo State University’s School of Sciences [...]

The history of the peoples of America has just been reinterpreted. The largest and most comprehensive study ever conducted on the basis of fossil DNA extracted from ancient human remains found on the continent has confirmed the existence of a single ancestral population for all Amerindian ethnic groups, past and present. More than 17,000 years ago, this original contingent crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska and began to populate the New World. Fossil DNA shows an affinity between [...]