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May 07, 2021 02:11 AM EDT (Photo : Dr. Guojie Zhang from the University of Copenhagen) Adapting to Changes (Photo : Pixabay) Adapting to new environments would be crucial for the long-term survival of most ecosystems as climate change tends to raise temperatures, increase drier conditions, and alter precipitation patterns. According to researchers at the University of New Hampshire, more than one genetic pathway allows animals to adapt to survive in colder, desert-like environments and exist without water. This is critical not only for their survival but also for developing gene therapies to ...

Humans have a higher density of sweat glands found in their skin than chimps and macaques. In fact, they have 10 times that of chimps and macaques. Penn Medicine experts have now learned how this unique, hyper-cooling feature developed in the human genome. (Photo : Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash) Sweating Researchers found that the higher density of sweat glands in humans is due to cumulative improvements in a regulatory area of DNA called an enhancer region that drives the expression of a sweat gland-building gene, explaining why humans are the sweatiest of the Great Apes. Studying Sweat Glands ...