An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

QUT researchers have recovered the genomes of more than 24,000 previously unknown microbial species—some from entirely new ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered Ice Age RNA preserved within permafrost mammoth tissue, offering a rare ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is ...

At Sheba, the project was made possible due to the work of Dr. Omri Nayshool and Dr. Tal Zinger from the Cancer Research Center, Dr. Dan Dominissini from the Laboratories Division, and Raizy Kellerman ...

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.

About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to cabernet sauvignon. Today, cabernet ...

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

Viking with dog Modern humans first emerged in Africa about a quarter of a million years ago. For most of the intervening ...

Global study on gibbon genomes has revealed that the deletion of a specific 205-base pair (bp) sequence in the Sonic Hedgehog ...