A Perfect Discovery.

An infinite tiling pattern.

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1. In a world first, scientists from 24 countries have mapped the DNA of more than 233 different primate species, more than quadrupling the existing genetic data, providing crucial new insights into disease-causing genetic mutations in humans. “Humans are primates," said lead author Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. "The study of hundreds of nonhuman primate genomes, given their phylogenetic position, is very valuable for human evolutionary studies, to better understand the human genome and the bases of our singularity, including the bases of human diseases, and for their future conservation." In one study, researchers used the 233 primate blueprints to inform a new artificial intelligence tool, which accurately identified and isolated genetic variations in human genomes responsible for diseases. “When we investigate the genomics of nonhuman primates, we not only learn about these species, which is important and timely, but we can also place human genetics into its proper comparative context, which provides new insights into human health and human evolution,” added Jeffrey Rogers, lead investigator and associate professor at the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor. The research was published in a special edition of the journal Science. (Sources: science.org, bcm.edu, newatlas.com, italics mine)