Genetics News

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome. Asiatic pear, also known as Chinese pear, Korean pear, Japanese pear, Taiwan pear and sand pear “Our role on the team was to work on the strategy for sequencing, analyzing the data, understanding some of the biological processes, and writing the manuscript,” said Dr Schuyler Korban, a plant molecular geneticist...

May 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

For the first time, the genomes of the domesticated tomato and its wild ancestor, Solanum pimpinellifolium, have been sequenced by the Tomato Genome Consortium,...

May 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

University of Sydney researchers have found that platypus colonies that live on Australia’s small islands are at high risk of disease epidemics that...

Apr 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has revealed that polar bears evolved some 600 thousand years ago, five times earlier than previously thought. Polar...

Apr 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists has confirmed the Tasmanian Tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) had limited genetic diversity prior to its...

Mar 19, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has discovered that house mice accompanied Vikings during their invasions in the 10th century. Mus musculus (Josef...

Dec 16, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center has discovered a gene mutation, which is believed to have occurred in...

Nov 23, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, found further proof that the wolf ancestors of today’s domesticated dogs can be traced...

Nov 10, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has unlocked the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature, using ancient...

Sep 20, 2011 by Natali Anderson

On-line gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stymied scientists, according to a press release from National...

Sep 15, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of 17 strains of common lab mice, according to  this week’s issue of Nature. This...

Sep 13, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from the International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies have identified a total of 23 gene regions associated...

Sep 6, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has identified two new genes connected with hereditary renal diseases. The team of scientists from Canada, Germany,...

Sep 2, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have discovered a genetic cause of extreme thinness for the first time, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. The research...

Sep 1, 2011 by Natali Anderson

The green anole lizard Anolis carolinensis, a native of the Southeastern United States, is the first nonbird species of reptile to have its genome sequenced...

Aug 31, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Six new genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes in South Asians have been identified by a team of international researchers. Writing in the journal...

Aug 30, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway...