A research team led by Florida State University scientists has demonstrated that there are specific points along the DNA molecule that control replication....
A research team led by Rockefeller University scientists has discovered a genetic variant that makes people more vulnerable to tuberculosis, a disease...
Researchers have for the first time mapped the genome of the Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana), a hibernating mammal that inhabits the high-elevation...
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands has identified a mechanism that enables angiosperms (flowering plants) to sense and remember...
A team of scientists at the University of Washington has genetically modified a common houseplant, the pothos ivy (Epipremnum aureum), to efficiently remove...
A team of researchers from the University of East Anglia, Earlham Institute and the UK’s National Institute for Agricultural Botany has successfully...
By performing genome-wide analyses across hair colors, researchers at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have discovered eight new genetic variants that...
Using as little as 1 picogram of purified DNA sample (think 2.5 trillion times lighter than a penny), scientists at the University of Brisbane have developed...
A team of scientists from the United States and Brazil has successfully sequenced the genome of the turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva) and...
A team of scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of California, Santa Cruz, has found evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon...
A team of researchers from the United States and Germany has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). The results show...
A team of researchers from Yale University, the University of Oviedo in Spain, the Galapagos Conservancy, and the Galapagos National Park Service has sequenced...
Manta rays and their relatives of the family Myliobatidae have massive, flapping fins as well as a pair of fleshy projections called cephalic lobes. A...
An international team of researchers from Germany and the United States has sequenced the genome of the giant tegu (Salvator merianae), also known as the...
Some things you learn in school turn out not to be true, for example that there are just five senses or three states of matter. Now cutting-edge research...
A new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, has found that the more sensitive people are to the bitter taste of caffeine, the more coffee...
Hongyacha, a new type of wild tea plant from the mountains of southern China, contains little or no caffeine, according to a study published in the Journal...
A three-species hybrid warbler found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and a warbler father from an entirely different genus...
An international team of scientists has found that the upper Amazon region gave birth to the domesticated Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate...
