A large multinational team of scientists led by Prof David Neale from the University of California Davis has sequenced the entire genome of the Loblolly...
In two new studies, genetic researchers have shown that about 20 percent of the Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and...
A new analysis of modern dog, wolf and golden jackal genomes suggests that dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 16,000 years...
A large group of genetic scientists has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii).
The elephant shark, Callorhinchus...
A large international consortium of genetic researchers has sequenced and analyzed the complete genome of Amborella trichopoda, the sole survivor of an...
Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...
A comparison of the high-quality genome sequence of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman with those of modern humans and Denisovans reveals a long history...
In a new yeast study, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Columbia University have found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres –...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old...
An international team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). The team has also sequenced the genome...
Scientists have analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 18 prehistoric wolf- and dog-like animals to show that more than 18,000 years ago, dogs...
Researchers have developed a new technique that is able to determine whether a particular genetic sequence comes from an individual’s mother or father....
A team of scientists from the United States and China has sequenced the genome of kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis).
Kiwifruits. Image credit: Hiperpinguino...
According to an international team of scientists from the United States, Europe and Russia, non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs triggered...
According to a team of scientists from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, different types of happiness have...
Genetic scientists have sequenced and analyzed short pieces of DNA preserved in bones from an early Middle Pleistocene horse that had been kept frozen...
An international consortium of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of the Costa Rican Matina cacao variety, the most widely cultivated cacao type...
