Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

He Jiankui, PhD, displays genome sequences of gene-edited twins, Lule and Nana, at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong in 2018. [National Academies] ...

Two studies published today, which together cover the past 50,000 years of human evolution, suggest Neanderthal DNA was already well and truly within our species' gene pool by around 42,000 years ago.

Here’s how it works. Scientists used lasers to transcribe all 3 billion letters of the human genome onto a "5D memory chip" the size of a coin.(Image credit: University of Southampton) ...

The plant’s genome has about 50 times as many base pairs as a human’s, and its DNA from a single cell would stretch longer than a football field Will Sullivan - Daily Correspondent June 4, 2024 ...

Our genome, transcriptome, and evolutionary analyses suggest that HS lncRNAs and their DBSs have continuously and distinctly rewired gene expression during human evolution. The rewired gene expression ...

The first human genome was completed in April 2003, but it left behind some unknown gaps, including swathes of the Y chromosome. The chromosome’s repetition made it a challenge to reconstruct.

It would not be until 2 decades later that an almost complete human reference genome is published (Nurk et al., 2022). The telomere-to-telomere length reference genome, T2T-CHM13, covers the existing ...

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