Monumental Project Underway To Sequence the Genome of Every Complex Species on Earth
The Earth Biogenome Project is ramping up. It’s a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on earth (some 1.8…
The Earth Biogenome Project is ramping up. It’s a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on earth (some 1.8…
Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed new biological parts that are able to shape the flow of cellular processes along DNA. The work,…
Findings could lead to advances in plant breeding, human genetics. A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according…
Researchers at Université de Montréal have created a nanoantenna to monitor the motions of proteins. Reported last week in Nature Methods, the device is a…
Beating the Odds in Mutation’s Game of Chance Discovery that plants protect their most essential genes transforms our view of evolution. Mutations of DNA do…
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment. In Down…
The air in a zoo is full of smells, from the fish used for feed to the manure from the grazing herbivores, but now we…
When scientists discovered DNA and learned how to control it, not only science but society was revolutionized. Today researchers and the medical industry routinely create…
Two new studies highlight technological advances in large-scale genomics and open windows into the lives of ancient people. New research reveals a major migration to…
Two independent research groups detect the presence of animals by collecting DNA from air. Two new studies published today (January 6, 2022) in the journal…
New research could have implications on drug treatments targeting cancer cells. A new cancer study reports that DNA manifested as knot-like folds and third rungs…
Using a new robotic platform, researchers can simultaneously track hundreds of microbial populations as they evolve new proteins or other molecules. Natural evolution is a…
DNAzymes are precision biocatalysts that destroy unwanted RNA molecules. However, major obstacles to their use in medicine remain. Together with Jülich Research Centre (FZJ) and…
New technique means head lice can provide clues about ancient people and migration. Human DNA can be extracted from the ‘cement’ head lice used to…
A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. A major new study of…
Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces. Sediments in which archaeological finds are…
Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from five…
Scientists investigating the DNA outside our genes — the ‘dark genome’ — have discovered recently evolved regions that code for proteins associated with schizophrenia and…