Matthias Meyer

TL;DR: The findings demonstrate that the developmental control of sexual differentiation changed via loss, sidelining, and empowerment of a mechanistically influential gene, and offer insights into novel factors that impinge on the diverse evolutionary fates of sex chromosomes.

TL;DR: The genome of a Neandertal from Chagyrskaya Cave in the Altai Mountains, Russia, is sequenced to 27-fold genomic coverage and it is found that genes highly expressed in the striatum in the basal ganglia of the brain carry more amino acid-changing substitutions than genes expressed elsewhere in the brain, suggesting that thestriatum may have evolved unique functions in NeandERTals.

TL;DR: It is found that the Riparo Mezzena mandible is not from a Neanderthal but belonged to an anatomically modern human, and no evidence for the presence of Neanderthal remains is found among 11 of the 13 cranial and post-cranial fragments re-investigated in this study.

TL;DR: Two-dimensional polarization fluorescence imaging of single light harvesting complexes 2 (LH2) of Rps.

TL;DR: A cheap and fast approach to detect SARS-CoV-2 in single or pooled gargle lavages ('mouthwashes') is presented and this or similar approaches could be implemented to protect hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions in this and future viral epidemics.