UMass Amherst scientists unveil a revolutionary DNA detection method with unmatched sensitivity, providing rapid results and portability. This advancement promises early disease detection and integration…
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Whale bones on South Georgia Island. Credit: Scott Baker, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University Research shows that 20th-century commercial whaling has left a mark…
Researchers have created a novel material by coating DNA with a pure form of glass, resulting in a substance that is lighter and stronger than…
Researchers extracted ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, comparing it with modern bird genetics and revealing that two supposedly island-specific species had a more extensive range.…
New research reveals that butterflies, moths, and aquatic caddisflies share DNA “blocks” dating back over 200 million years, identified through a tool developed by scientists…
Dr. Littlefair collecting a water sample at the lake shoreline which will later be analyzed for environmental DNA. Credit: Rachel Henderson A study revealed the…
One of the sites excavated along the coastline. Credit: University of York New research on ancient DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of…
Researchers have compared the genomes of woolly mammoths and modern-day elephants to identify the unique characteristics of woolly mammoths. In a study published in Current…
Chromosomes in cells with whole genome doubling. Credit: Elisa Oricchio/Giovanni Ciriello (EPFL/UNIL) A single cell holds 2-3 meters of DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a…
The researchers have devised a computational analysis method to detect and distinguish the functional impacts of somatic structural variations. Cancer is a complex and diverse…
A robot punches out pinhead-sized pieces from a gel layer. The narrow blue bands contain proteins from a bacterial culture. Subsequently, the proteins contained in…
What a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast…
A study published in PeerJ Life & Environment analyzed the species of larvae found in bottles of Mezcal, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from agave.…
Cells constantly experience malfunctions that require error correction mechanisms to function properly. However, in the case of cancer cells, inducing errors can be beneficial in…
Overview of Cueva de Malalmuerzo. Credit: Pedro Cantalejo A genome of a human from the Ice Age refuge located in southern Spain. A team of…
The findings offer new insights into cell health and disease as failures in replication licensing can result in cell death or cancer. According to a…
Remains from the Lindegården excavation site at Ribe Cathedral (Denmark) dated between the 9th and 19th centuries. Credit: Museum of Southwest Jutland Researchers Document Evolution…
The East Smithfield plague pits, which were used for mass burials in 1348 and 1349. Credit: Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) The researchers analyzed over…
The new approach is called iDEMS (isolation of DNA by EdU labeling for Mass Spectrometry). A recent technical report in Nature Cell Biology has introduced…
Proteins labeled with colored tags fill the main compartment — but not the nuclei (blue) — of human cervical cancer cells. Green cells contain the…