Genetics News

A new method of gene identification that could increase the genetic information scientists hold on animals by up to 80 per cent has been discovered by...

A gene that is associated with regeneration of injured nerve cells has been identified by a team of researchers led by Prof Melissa Rolls of Penn State...

An international team of scientists has sequenced mitochondrial genome of first New Zealand settlers, and revealed a surprising degree of genetic variation...

In a new genetic study led by Swedish scientists, the indigenous peoples of the Argentinean part of the Andes have been found to carry a gene that accelerates...

A team of Harvard and Max Planck Institute researchers has estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explore why...

According to a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, mechanisms learned from the early phase of limb...

An international team of researchers has completed the first sequencing of the Denisovan genome, shedding light on the relationships between these archaic...

The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, an international collaboration of more than 440 scientists in 32 labs in United States, the United Kingdom,...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches – the Medium Ground-finch. Galapagos Medium Ground-finch (© Petr Baum /...

The new genetic study by a multinational group of scientists has shown that a large percentage of genes in our bodies are likely to affect bone strength,...

Macrozamia, a genus of cycad found only in Australia, is now believed to have arrived inland far more recently than initially thought. The MacDonnell Ranges...

After sequencing the complete genome of Leishmania donovani, a parasite causing one of the most important tropical diseases after malaria, a team of scientists...

An international consortium of plant scientists has completed the first sequencing of the banana genome. Bananas (Steve Hopson / www.stevehopson.com) The...

An international team of researchers led by Lanzhou University, China, has completed the genomic sequence of a female domestic yak. Yak near the sacred...

A multinational team of researchers from the UK, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Italy has found that the genomes of some Ethiopian populations bear striking similarities...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has completed the genome...

An international consortium of universities and institutions has recently completed the first sequencing of the Asiatic pear genome. Asiatic pear, also...

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

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