In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could survive. The discovery of the most heat-tolerant plant yet found on Earth ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first glance. Its knobby flower stalks look more like a mushroom than a flowering ...

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

Plinia trunciflora (O.Berg) Kausel, synonym Myrciaria trunciflora O.Berg, is a native Brazilian tree that belongs to the Myrtaceae family and is widely distributed in the southern and southeastern ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA, the small but vital genome that powers every cell. The ...

Introduction: The Zingiberaceae family, which includes numerous economically and medicinally important species, exhibits considerable phylogenetic and genetic diversity. Chloroplast genomes are ...

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Camena Bioscience (Camena), an innovator in enzymatic DNA synthesis, and Constructive Bio (Constructive), a pioneer in whole genome writing, today announced they have joined a collaborative project ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

HiMT is a rapid organelle genome assembly tool for HiFi data, which can be used for the assembly of plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and animal mitochondrial genomes. It supports usage on Linux, ...

The ability to sequence and edit human DNA has revolutionized biomedicine. Now a new consortium wants to take the next step and build human genomes from scratch. The Human Genome Project was one of ...