Group of hunters from the Ju/’hoansi tribe in the Namibian Bush/ Stephan C. Schuster
Researchers from Penn State University, the University of New South Wales in Australia, and the Baylor College of Medicine have sequenced the genomes of four individuals from different groups of the click-speaking San of southern Africa, as well as of Bishop Desmond [...]

Tags: Africa, Bushmen, Desmond Tutu, diversity, genome sequencing, San

Using a research method very similar to the one used in 23andMe’s Global Similarity advanced view feature, researchers have discovered that most of the embryonic stem cell lines currently studied by researchers are derived from European and Middle Eastern populations.  Only two out of 47 were derived from egg and sperm coming from people with [...]

Tags: diversity, global similarity, stem cells