Losing just one night of sleep can have a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of gene expression and metabolism, according to new study. The findings,...
According to a large new study of twins, genetics explains more than 60% of individual differences in school achievement.
Rimfeld et al use twin analyses...
A team of researchers from Australia, China and the United Kingdom has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a species...
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each other more than 390,000 years ago. These two groups inhabited Eurasia...
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published this week the first fully annotated reference genome of the bread wheat (Triticum...
An international team of scientists has successfully sequenced the genome of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Image credit: Dia...
Modern pygmies living in a village near the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, where fossils of the dwarfed human species Homo floresiensis...
A multinational team led by researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Univesities of Queensland and Southern California, Los Angeles, has conducted...
An international team of researchers, led by Kanazawa and Kobe Universities, Japan, and the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, Germany, has sequenced...
Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more...
A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBERDEM and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has demonstrated that a single...
According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they form...
Transfer of vital genetic information within a cell isn’t the one-way telegraph, according to a new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism.
The...
A large prospective cohort study of a half million people in the United Kingdom has found inverse associations for coffee drinking with mortality, including...
The Koala Genome Consortium, a research group that includes 54 scientists from 29 different institutions across seven countries, has produced the first...
An international research team led by University of Otago’s Professor Neil Gemmell is using the latest DNA technologies to compile a census of life in...
A team of scientists has identified 27 new viruses that infect European honeybees (Apis mellifera) and other bee species.
Galbraith et al identified 27...
A research team led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has analyzed mitochondrial...
A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans, NOTCH2NL, appears to play a critical role in the development of our large brains, according...
