Five locks of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair have been used to help uncover information about the German composer's health. Beethoven, who died in 1827, notably had several health problems and wanted ...

Scientists have analysed five locks of what is believed to be Beethoven’s hair to sequence the genome of the prodigious composer. Their findings indicate it is likely that a genetic predisposition to ...

This kind of DNA testing studies the mitochrondrial DNA that is sometimes found in a strand of hair. The hair does need not have the root intact—the shaft itself is adequate. Unlike regular DNA ...

In 2010, geneticists in Denmark passed a remarkable milestone. Extracting fragments of DNA from 4,000-year-old strands of hair from Greenland that had been stored in a Copenhagen museum for ...

So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

Nicky Guadagni (Narrator)Michael Fletcher (Narrator)Matt Cahill (Narrator)Alfredo Guevara (Self)Láry Hauser (Ludwig van Beethoven)Max Wittmann (Ferdinand Hiller)Filip Hromcik (Young Ferdinand ...

Over the past few decades studies on DNA, the 'source code of life' which carries the genetic identity of living things, have opened doors to a number of new applications, especially in technology.

A lock of Beethoven’s hair is going up for auction after being snipped off by the composer himself almost 200 years ago. Beethoven gave the dark brown and grey strands to his friend, pianist ...

Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

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Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern times, when a pair of ...