Genetics News

A research team led by John Innes Centre scientists has sequenced and annotated the chromosome-scale genome assembly of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), a...

A team of researchers at CSIRO has decoded the genome of the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus), a critically endangered species of marine fish...

Despite the long history of consumption of fermented dairy, little is known about how the fermented microbes were utilized and evolved over human history....

Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information without loss for billions of...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. It has captured the imagination of many owing to its...

In 2015, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of a Neanderthal individual at Grotte Mandrin, a rockshelter located in Mediterranean France...

The so-called i-motifs are knot-like DNA structures formed in the nuclei of human cells and believed to provide critical genomic regulation. In new research,...

DNA methylation is a broadly observed epigenetic modification in living systems, playing diverse functions in transcriptional regulation, transposable...

Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas led to the extinction of nearly all North American dog mitochondrial lineages...

Researchers from the University of Konstanz and elsewhere have sequenced the genomes of the African (Protopterus annectens) and South American lungfishes...

A team of scientists in China has assembled a telomere-to-telomere reference genome for ginseng (Panax ginseng), a representative of Chinese traditional...

Amoebidium appalachense, a protist closely related to animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code, according...

New research shows that recurrent episodes of gene flow, beginning 250,000 to 200,000 years ago, affected the genomes and biology of both modern humans...

Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere say they have discovered subfossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a female woolly mammoth...

Dingoes (Canis dingo) are an iconic element of Australia’s biodiversity, but evidence-based management and conservation of dingoes depend on understanding...

In collaboration with Indigenous rangers and conservation managers, scientists from the University of Sydney and elsewhere have decoded the genomes of...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) became isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia around 10,000 years ago and persisted for over 200 generations...

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages. In new research, scientists from the University of California, San Diego and elsewhere performed a...

Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their domestication and widespread integration as a means of transportation...