Pioneering Research Reveals Certain Human Genes Relate to Gut Bacteria
The role genetics and gut bacteria play in human health has long been a fruitful source of scientific inquiry, but new research marks a significant…
The role genetics and gut bacteria play in human health has long been a fruitful source of scientific inquiry, but new research marks a significant…
The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human chromosome is a major milestone for genomics research. Although the current human reference genome…
In the first study to comprehensively track how different types of brain cells respond to the mutation that causes Huntington’s disease (HD), MIT neuroscientists found…
Researchers Have Generated the First Complete X Chromosome Sequence Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health…
Metagenome Database Detects Phage-Derived Antibacterial Enzyme Scientists demonstrate that the information about host bacteria-bacteriophage (phage) associations derived from world’s first metagenome analysis is useful for…
Genomic data from COVID-19 cases in the first 10 weeks of Australia’s outbreak proved vital to understanding the trajectory of the disease and has an…
Supergenes Play a Larger Role in Evolution Than Previously Thought Massive blocks of genes—inherited together ‘plug and play’ style—may play a larger role in evolutionary…
Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between genes and behavior. A new study of Africanized honey…
River water, lake water, and seawater contain DNA belonging to organisms such as animals and plants. Ecologists have begun to actively analyze such DNA molecules,…
Scientists have shown that a large group of viruses, including the influenza viruses and other serious pathogens, steal genetic signals from their hosts to expand…
In lab tests, virus-like DNA structures coated with viral proteins provoke a strong immune response in human B cells. By folding DNA into a virus-like…
Regions of DNA that give rise to non-coding RNA are required for proper development of plant reproductive organs. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science…
Gardenia’s newly sequenced genome highlights how evolutionary tinkering transforms plants into some of nature’s great chemical-makers. Plants are some of nature’s most extraordinary chemists. Unlike…
Applied computational biology discoveries vastly expand the range of CRISPR’s access to DNA sequences. In nature, bacteria use CRISPR as an adaptive immune system to…
Reactivating an enzyme that promotes DNA repair can help to reverse age-related cognitive decline in mice. MIT neuroscientists have discovered that an enzyme called HDAC1…
What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new interdisciplinary study, researchers have combined archaeological and genetic…
The three-dimensional structure of the human genome is essential for providing a rapid and robust inflammatory response but is surprisingly not vital for reprogramming one…
Scientists have long debated which genetic information carrier — DNA or RNA — started life on Earth, but a new study suggests life could have…