Posts Tagged ‘extinct’

A study of heart-attack patients published in the late 1980s was wildly successful. Researchers showed they could lower the heart-attack death rate to 8% from 13% by giving patients aspirin and a drug called streptokinase. These days, though, an 8% mortality rate would be disastrous; the rate in most studies of heart attack patients is somewhere around 4%. That points to a ... Full story

ADELAIDE - In a new study, scientists have determined that DNA recovered from fossilised bones of the moa, a giant extinct bird, has revealed a new geological history of New Zealand. A team of scientists led by the University of Adelaide has reconstructed a history of marine barriers, mountain building and glacial cycles in New Zealand .... Read the original article  : DNA from extinct ... Full story