De-extinction, once a concept of science fiction, is becoming a reality through advancements in gene editing technologies ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate, scientists turn to Earth’s past to understand future changes. Glaciers, vast ice ...

The GenomeIndia Project, launched in 2020, aims to map the genetic diversity of India's population by sequencing genomes. By ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

The following is a summary of “Mitochondrial Metabolism Gene ECH1 Was Identified as a Novel Biomarker for Diabetic ...

B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

Whole-genome analysis raises concerns about the rare songbird, the authors of a recent study say, but could also help with ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...

How ancient DNA analysis revealed that unusually bound medieval books are covered in sealskin, and top quarks and their ...