Genetics News

Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...

A large team of scientists led by Washington University geneticist Dr John Stamatoyannopoulos has found a ‘secret’ second code hiding within human...

A team of genetic researchers from Cornell University and Nova Southeastern University have discovered that many of the great white shark’s (Carcharodon...

In a new yeast study, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Columbia University have found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres –...

An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). The team has also sequenced the genome...

Scientists from the University of Oxford and Plymouth University, both in UK, have found evidence of Neanderthal and Denisovan viruses in DNA of modern...

Scientists have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 18 prehistoric wolf- and dog-like animals to show that more than 18,000 years ago, dogs...

Researchers have developed a new technique that is able to determine whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual’s mother or father....

A team of scientists from the United States and China has sequenced the genome of kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis). Kiwifruits. Image credit: Hiperpinguino...

Genomic sequences of 31 Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) strains collected in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia support the ‘out-of-Africa’...

Genetic researchers reporting in the journal Nature Genetics have discovered an additional 48 genetic variants influencing the risk of developing multiple...

A team of scientists led by Dr Peter Fraser from the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK, has developed a new method to determine the 3D structures of...

An international team of researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology has found evidence that ageing works through a special set of genes that...

According to European scientists reporting in the journal Nature, bottlenose dolphins and bats have a genetic resemblance due to their echolocation capability. A...

According to a large multinational team of researchers, two genes – the blood cell regulator SENP1 and the cancer-associated gene ANP32D –...

Stanford researchers claim that our most recent common ancestors, known as mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam, roughly overlapped during evolutionary...

Two proteins called TAS1R3 and GNAT3, which have been previously known to be involved in oral taste detection, also play a crucial role in sperm development,...

Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...

New genetic research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences refutes a recent theory that there is evidence for the presence of...