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Upcoming Meetings Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 57. Upcoming meetings IAS 2018 Spring Scientific Meeting & A.G.M. The 2018 spring scientific meeting and A.G.M. of the IAS will be held at the University of Leicester. (Awaiting confirmation of dates by Leicester) Annual Conference 2018 Structure and Function Best Practice for Health and Performance Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February 2018 Holywell Park Conference Centre, Loughborough University, Ashby Rd, Loughborough LE11 3AJ Poster Submission Dates: 1st December 2017: Latest date for sending the title and short description (No more than 100 words) 8th December 2017: You will receive notification of acceptance on or before this date 1st February 2018: Postal delivery deadline to: Horses Inside Out, 38 Main Street, Bunny, Nottingham. NG11 6QU http://www.horsesinsideout.com/conference2018.html#Posters (A special extention until January 1st has been agree for IAS Members who wish to submit a poster) Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 1 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 57. News items from around the World November 2017 Issue Contents: 3 Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly' 4 Ancient DNA sheds light on African history 5 Belfast scientists design flexible organic battery 6 Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces' 8 Just About Everything We Know About the Pard 11 Roger Bainton: Surgeon struck off for harming patients 12 Oldest person in the world, Jamaica’s Violet Moss Brown is dead 13 How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate 17 New morgue for Cape Town 18 Every childhood vaccine may go into a single jab 19 Pathologist arrested with human organ samples, half-empty vodka bottle during OWI arrest 20 Have you got the wrong impression about schizophrenia? 21 10 KG Complex Ovarian Tumor Surgery at AMRI Hospitals by Dr. G S S Mohapatra 22 Plant-eating dinosaurs 'strayed from veggie diet' 23 Excess dietary manganese promotes staph heart infection 24 UK 'eliminates measles' for first time 25 Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs—And That's a Big Deal 27 New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains 28 In Med School, VR Has the Potential to Bridge the Gap Between Theory and Practice 29 Former 'heaviest woman' Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty dies 30 In Search of Cemeteries Alive With Beauty, Art, and History 37 Selective regimes and functional anatomy in the mustelid forelimb: Diversification toward specializations for climbing, digging, and swimming 50 Vegetative-state patient responds to therapy 51 A Giant, ‘Coconut Eating’ Rat Has Been Discovered in the Solomon Islands 52 Blood Samples Delivered by Drones 53 Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez had 'most severe' brain disease 54 Feeling grumpy? Blame Neanderthals! DNA inherited from our ancient cousins can drive our smoking habits, mood swings and sleeping patterns 58 Maryborough students showcase their anatomy art 59 What's killing right whales? P.E.I. wildlife pathologists spend summer searching for answers 62 Son loses bid to stop disposal of parents' bodies 63 Is Joint Replacement Surgery Right For You? 64 The Giant of Extremadura 65 St. Joseph School “Mini-Medical School” conducts dissection 66 Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray 69 What our bones say about us 70 Pathologist toting human organs while drunk gets probation 71 Pathologist caught with human organ samples, vodka during OWI arrest gets probation 71 Pathologist toting human organs gets probation 72 Loved ones can't be buried due to morgue backlogs 73 Drug therapy 'restores breathing' after spinal injury 74 Research Breakthrough: Whole Brain Imaging of Alzheimer's Pathology in Mice 76 BluePrint Phase 2 Demonstrates Digital Pathology Review Equivalent to Glass Slides 77 Pathologists can’t cope with Western Cape crime wave 78 Alabama rot dog disease cases 'mostly occur in winter' 79 A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas 84 Working between the living and the dead 88 Dyslexia link to eye spots confusing brain, say scientists 89 Remains of Dolly the Sheep 91 Glasgow medical student finds sweet success with Candy Anatomy designs 94 Indiana autopsy doctor talks about life, death and myths of the morgue 96 Leader of Johnson & Johnson 3D Printing Center of Excellence Outlines Advantages of Customized Knee Implants 98 This mortician-activist doesn’t think the funeral industry should decide what happens to your body after you die 100 UK scientists edit DNA of human embryos 102 Visible Body Debuts Augmented Reality Anatomy App for iOS 103 Severed head of eccentric Jeremy Bentham to go on display as scientists test DNA to see if he was autistic 105 Sponsors of the IAS Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 2 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 57. Science & Environment Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly' By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News A new study shows that Neanderthal brains developed more slowly than ours. An analysis of a Neanderthal child's skeleton suggests that its brain was still developing at a time when the brains of modern human children are fully formed. This is further evidence that this now extinct human was not more brutish and primitive than our species. The research has been published in the journal Science. Until now it had been thought that we were the only species whose brains developed relatively slowly. Unlike The skeleton of a boy that shattered our view of Neanderthal brain development other apes and more primitive humans, Homo sapiens has an extended period of childhood lasting several years. This is because it takes timeextended and energy period to of develop childhood our lastinglarge brain. Previous studies of Neanderthal remains indicated that they developed more quicklyseveral than years. modern This humans is because - suggesting it takes that their brains might be less sophisticated. time and energy to develop our large brain. Previous studies of Neanderthal But a team led by Prof Antonio Rosas of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madridremains found thaindicatedt if anything, that they Neanderthal developed brains may have developed even more slowly than ours. "It was a surprise," he told BBCmore News. quickly"When we startedthan themodern study we were expecting something similar to the previous studies." humanshumans, Homo sapiens has an extended period of childhood lasting severalProf Rosas years and his team believe they are right and the previous studies are wrong because for the first time they were able to study a relatively complete skeleton of a child at a crucial stage in their development. It was of a boy, who was nearly seven-and-a-half years old when he died. His bones were found in the 49,000-year-old site of El Sidrón, in Spain. The boy's remains are exceptionally well preserved and include a mix of baby and adult teeth, which enabled the team to accurately determine his The remains were discovered inside the El Sidrón cave in Asturias, Spain. age. This brain is estimated to have been 87.5% of the size of an average adult Neanderthal brain upon death. A modern human child at the same general age would have, on average, a brain that was 95% the size of an adult's. The researchers also found that some of the small bones forming the boy's backbone were not fused. In modern humans, these bones tend to fuse by the time children reach the age of six. According to Prof Rosas, the finding reinforces the idea that Neanderthals were not that different from us. The brutish picture of Neanderthals is an old one. In the last few years there has been growing evidence to suggest that they were a distinct human species with some small differences. Now we can say that their growth pattern is similar to ours, too. The finding raises the intriguing possibility that the Neanderthals' slightly slower brain development meant that their brains might have been more advanced than ours. But Prof Rosas prefers a more prosaic interpretation. "Neanderthals have a larger brain and larger body and so it is logical to think that the brain of the Neanderthal continues to grow for a little longer to allow their brains and bodies to get to their adult size," he explained. Please visit the IAS website: http://www.anatomical-sciences.org.uk/ 3 Editor: John Ben F.I.A.S. Email [email protected] Institute of Anatomical Sciences Supplement of World News. No 57. Before this finding, scientists believed that modern humans were the slowest growing species. Now we know that Neanderthals took slightly longer, suggesting that both species inherited this growth pattern from a now extinct common ancestor. FollowPallab on Twitter The researchers were surprised to discover that Neanderthal brains develop more slowly Science & Environment Ancient DNA sheds light on African history DNA from ancient remains has been used to reconstruct thousands of years of population history in Africa. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 16 individuals who lived between 8,000 and 1,000 years ago. The data shows how the invention and spread of farming had a major impact on the genes of people in Africa - just as it did in Europe and Asia. The findings are published in the journal Cell. The results suggest that populations related to the indigenous people of Burials at Mount Hora in Malawi yielded DNA used in the study southern Africa had a wider distribution in the past. This southern African-like genetic background is found in hunter-gatherers from Malawi and TanzaniaAfrican in the-like east geneticof the continent.backgroun Thesed is hunters lived between 8,100 and 1,400 years ago.
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