New, tiny device can extract clean DNA material within minutes
Hand-held device for extracting DNA. (c) UW/NanoFacture/KNR The human genome has been sequenced a mere few years ago, and since ...
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Organism with six sexes picks gender like a game of roulette
For more than 50 years since its discovery, the single-celled organism Tetrahymena thermophila has stirred curiosity around its seven sexes. UC Santa Barbara ...
Quadruple helix DNA proven to exist in human cells
Exactly 50 years ago, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a monumental paper that for the first time described the intertwined ...
Polar bears interbred with brown bears during warmer climate
A new research has found after analyzing the genomes of polar bears and brown bears that the two species interbred, ...
Earliest modern human genome partially sequenced
The skeleton of an ancient caveman dubbed Brana 1 yielded the oldest DNA found in a modern human. CREDIT: Alberto ...
Prolific inventor, Stephen Quake, awarded the Lemelson-MIT $500,000 prize
Stephen Quake is a professor of bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. ...
Gorillas are more related to humans than previously thought, complete genome sequence shows
Researchers have completed the great apes family's genetic library after they sequenced the genes of a western lowland gorilla, joining the already-sequenced ...
USB-powered DNA sequencer puts genetic analysis out of the lab to your laptop
Since the advent of modern DNA sequencing technology, biological research and discoveries has been dramatically accelerated. It's absolutely instrumental to ...
High-resolution genome sequence of ancient human ancestor released online
Last year, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, produced a draft of the Denisova genome, in order study ...
New DNA sequencing device could decode your genome for just $1000
News of a low-cost semiconductor-based gene sequencing machine has been reported this Wednesday in the journal Nature, by a team led ...
Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal
There has been a long standing debate regarding the Neanderthal people, and what kind of legacy we carry from them. ...
Ozzy Osborne’s genome reveals why he is still alive
The lead singer, rock legend bat beheader has done pretty much anything you can do in this life. He played ...
Complete Neanderthal genome sequenced
Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...
Genetic map of Europe
If you ever visited a neighboring country and found that the people there had little or no connection to your ...
