Soybean farmers around the world face a persistent and costly enemy hidden beneath the soil: soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a ...
A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...
A study of multiple Mycena mushroom species, also known as "bonnets," reported in the journal Cell Genomics on June 27 has found that they have unexpectedly large genomes. While the mushrooms had been ...
The human genome has yielded another round of secrets with the publication of two back-to-back papers in Nature on July 23, 2025. Both studies re-sequenced probands from the open-access 1000 Genomes ...
The rate at which mutations arise can be estimated by studying multigenerational human families. Reference genomes have been assembled for 28 people from four generations of the same family. This ...
A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do. Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern growing in a forest on an island east of Australia. “It doesn’t catch the eye,” said Jaume ...
New analysis of the 1000 Genomes sample set yields brand new insights, providing a more complete view of human genetic variation than ever before. Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us ...