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An ancient human lineage roamed Europe's frozen tundra for nearly 80 generations. Then they died out.
The New Caledonian fern's genome is 50 times larger than the human genome.
The human "pangenome" is a full genetic sequence that incorporates genomes from not just one individual, but 47.
A new technology based on CRISPR may change the way scientists probe the human genome.
It's a huge milestone for science but it may take many years before we reap the benefits.
Potato varieties are notoriously hard to breed -- this research aims to fix that.
Technological limitations prevented scientists from sequencing a minor but important fraction of the genome -- until now.
It's a method that can help detect rare genetic disease.
The comparison could help us bring penicillin up to scratch.
Scientists analyzed the genomes of the living descendents of the victims of the African slave trade.
Among other things, these genomes may help find new approaches against COVID-19.
Researchers hope to completely sequence the other 23 chromosomes by the end of the year.
The study could pave the way for long-term storage using the blueprint of life.
The transatlantic slave trade was at its height between 1750 and 1850. Now, a new study analyzing the genomes of people with African ancestry has confirmed this and provides more insight.
The early Neolithic female was a hunter-gather
I'd bite.
There's still a long way to go before we have a full chicken, though.
Tastefully done.
The redwood has the 2nd largest genome in the world.
Synthetic life isn't a paradox anymore.
Scientists sink their teeth in the great white's genome
Surprisingly, these butterflies could teach us a thing or two about humans.
We're beginning to understand who were the first Americans in greater detail.
The study hints to evidence for a physical cause of addiction.
This could help scientists uncover the origin of social behavior in all animals.
More food for less effort? Sign me up!
Myths surrounding the founding of the Inca might not only be true -- they also seem to be linked.
Let's stop and smell the roses... at a genetic level.
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
Their insane ability to survive almost anything is written in their DNA.
So far, scientists couldn't sequence all of it due to its huge length.
Genome sequencing of infant found in Alaska reveals new Native American Population
They're not interested in the 'high' part of cannabis, though.
It doesn't seem that Native Americans mixed with Polynesians before European contact.
It's gotta be pretty important if it has a back-up system in place.
A tiny plant with a lot of genes.
#wingmen.
Immense potential in a small cell.
Smoking is bad for your health, and that includes genes too.
Scientists want to build and deploy a fully synthetic human genome in human cell lines within 10 years.
The craziest thing you'll see all day -- predicting what you look like from DNA.
Also known as the water bear, the tardigrade has a lot to be proud of -- this tiny organism is nigh-indestructible, known to have survived in extreme temperatures ( -272C to +151C / -457.6F to 303.8F) and to be the only animal that can brave the vacuum of space unprotected and live to tell the tale.
A team working at the Francis Crick Institute in London applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a permit that would allow them to edit genes in a human embryo. If allowed, this would lead to the very first genetically modified embryo in the UK. The scientists claim they need approval to do basic research that may " improve embryo development after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and might provide better clinical treatments for infertility,” and not for clinical research. Either way, the controversial practice is banned in all Western countries and virtually banned, although not explicitly, in the US.
It's been only a decade since the Human Genome Project finished its task of mapping all the code that makes up our DNA. The hard part came later, though - identifying what each piece of code does or, oddly enough, does not. According to the most recent estimate for instance, only 8.2% of the code embedded in the human genome is actually useful, in the sense that it performs a function whether activating a gene, regulating it, and so on. The rest is what scientists class as "junk DNA".
DNA analysis of the jawbone of a human who lived in modern day Romania some 40,000 years ago has the most Neanderthal ancestry ever seen. Up to 9% of the ancient man's DNA was Neanderthal, suggesting interbreeding occurred much earlier than previously thought. In fact, this European human had a Neanderthal ancestor four to six generations back in his family tree. How would it be to have a Neanderthal for a great-great-great-grandfather?
The carnivorous bladderwort (Utricularia gibba) a carnivorous plant which occurs fresh water and wet soil. Recently, they took biologists by surprise by having a huge number of genes, despite a fairly small genome. The plant is six times smaller than the grape for example, but has 28,500 genes, compared to the 26,300 of the grape.
A mind blowing international project performed a mass genome sequence to build the entire avian tree and reveal how birds evolved, particularly after the fall of the dinosaurs some 65 million years. A fallen dinosaur kingdom was replaced by a bird republic, as the direct descendants of the dinosaurs began to fill all the now […]
Genetic diversity is essential to our survival, but its exactly the huge variance in genetic information that makes all so sought for personalised treatment so difficult. And you don’t need to look at an entire population or even two different people to experience the power of diversity. It’s enough to look inside your own, personal […]
People from the Americas may have been making their way to the Easter Island way before Dutch commander Jakob Roggeveen arrived in 1722, according to new genomic evidence; this new evidence showed that the isolated Rapanui people shared a strong connection with Native American populations hundreds of years earlier. This evidence shows that early Americans undertook the […]
A new milestone study found that mitochondria – the energy factories in animal and plant cells – were initially very similar to parasitic bacteria some two billion years ago, and only later did they become energy sources. Very little is known about the origins of mitochondria, but by probing the genomes of bacteria closely related to […]
