In a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers at the University of Bristol searched for the effects of heavy smoking using the UK Biobank...
Complex chemical signals are triggered when water lands on a plant to help it prepare for the dangers of rain, according to a new study published in the...
The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern Homo sapiens emerged in a region south of the Zambezi River in Botswana, Africa, according to a new analysis...
An international team of ornithologists led by by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History has discovered and scientifically...
Modern individuals from the Pacific islands of Melanesia harbor adaptive copy number variants (CNVs) that they inherited from two groups of our evolutionary...
The Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), also known as the thylacine, was a carnivorous marsupial found throughout most of Tasmania before European...
A team of scientists from King’s College London, University College London and the University of Manchester has identified 44 genes linked to age-related...
A team of Australian scientists has successfully completed an integrated genomic characterization of a reef-building coral species called Porites lutea...
DNA is constructed of two strands, consisting of sugar molecules and phosphate groups. Between these two strands are nitrogen bases, the compounds which...
Scientists from the Penguin Genome Consortium have produced 19 high-coverage penguin genome sequences that, together with two previously published genomes,...
The similar clustering of DNA in the chromosomes of humans and Archaea is significant because certain genes activate or deactivate based upon how they’re...
A team of researchers from Israel and Spain has produced reconstructions of Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neanderthals, based on patterns of methylation...
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford has identified four regions of the human genome associated with left-handedness in the general population...
An international team of researchers has announced the results of investigations into the environmental DNA (eDNA) present in Loch Ness, a large freshwater...
Higher coffee intake may help reduce the risk of symptomatic gallstone disease, according to a University of Copenhagen-led study.
Coffee consumption is...
A multinational team of scientists has sequenced the first genome of an individual from the Harappan Civilization. The genome, which belongs to a woman...
An international team of scientists from Canada and Europe has identified the missing part of a fifth finger bone from the Denisova Cave, revealing that...
Sleep is crucial for our survival, and many conditions, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s, are linked to...
An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the genome of the common pea (Pisum sativum), the second most important grain legume in the world...
