Jan 9, 2018 by News Staff

Using 3D images, biologists at Imperial College London, UK, have shown how bacteria have evolved their ‘flagellar’ motors of different powers to optimize...

Jan 4, 2018 by News Staff

Genetic analysis of DNA from a female infant found at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska has revealed a previously unknown Native American...

Dec 22, 2017 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers led by Karolinska Institutet scientists has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of a species of salamander...

Dec 19, 2017 by News Staff

Viruses can transfer genes to organisms they are not known to infect, including organisms in different domains (superkingdoms) of life, according to a...

Dec 12, 2017 by Natali Anderson

The silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) has previously been recognized to be a single species divided into several sub-species. But a new genetic analysis,...

Dec 11, 2017 by News Staff

A team of scientists at Caltech has created the smallest version of the Mona Lisa ever — out of DNA. The work is described in a paper appearing in...

Dec 3, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from fossils of extinct New World stilt-legged horses reveals that, contrary to previous findings, these enigmatic...

Nov 24, 2017 by News Staff

A team of synthetic biologists from Columbia University has successfully converted an immune system of the gut bacterium Escherichia coli into a microscopic...

Nov 21, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University, Pacific Biosciences, and Earlham Institute has produced the first near-complete...

Nov 20, 2017 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by California State University’s Professor Patrick Krug has discovered three cryptic new species of sea slugs, and named one...

Nov 17, 2017 by News Staff

A rare loss-of-function mutation in a gene called SERPINE1 identified among Old Order Amish in Indiana is associated with a longer lifespan, improved metabolism...

Nov 6, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of researchers led by the Swedish Museum of Natural History has discovered that fossilized remains of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus...

Oct 27, 2017 by News Staff

The aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands, commonly known as Guanches, were genetically most similar to modern North African Berbers, according...

Oct 20, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers has used advanced DNA sequencing methods to retrieve and analyze mitochondrial genome data from two lineages of saber-toothed...

Oct 13, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Canada and China has sequenced the genome of the economically important species Apostichopus japonicus, commonly...

Oct 13, 2017 by News Staff

A new study of ancient DNA appears to rule out the likelihood that inhabitants of Easter Island intermixed with Native South Americans prior to the arrival...

Oct 11, 2017 by News Staff

An ornamented bâton percé, or pierced rod, unearthed at the archaeological site of Gołębiewo in Poland, may provide evidence of interregional contact...

Oct 7, 2017 by News Staff

Two separate teams of researchers have used advanced DNA sequencing methods to analyze the 52,000-year-old remains of a Neanderthal woman from Vindija...

Oct 6, 2017 by Zvi Cramer

Scientists have shown that mutations present in circulating tumor DNA isolated from the blood predicts the likelihood a patient will respond to checkpoint...

Sep 29, 2017 by News Staff

A new study led by University of Adelaide researcher Jeremy Austin traces the history of Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) populations over the last 30,000 years. A...