New DNA sequencing technologies and assembly methods let researchers read the entire genomes of 25 species: pale spear-nosed bat, greater horseshoe bat, Egyptian fruit bat,…
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A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a gene – called SVEP1 – that makes a protein that…
A skull of the extinct horned crocodile from Madagascar (Voay robustus), which is part of the American Museum of Natural History’s paleontology collection. Credit: M.…
The Taiwan habu (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus) is an invasive species that has become well established in Okinawa. Credit: OIST/Steven Aird Startling new evidence shows mammal salivary…
Photo of Kertam, a young male Sumatran rhinoceros from Borneo whose genome was sequenced for this study. Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers…
A colony of Acropora tenuis grown in a natural sea environment and transferred to an aquarium to induce spawning. Credit: OIST The ability to culture…
Over the last 60 years, scientists have been able to observe how and when genetic information was replicated, determining the existence a “replication timing program,”…
Human chromosome 8 sequencing researcher Glennis Logsdon at work in a genome science lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She…
The MIT spinout KSQ Therapeutics uses large scale gene editing to study the role of genes in diseases like cancer. Credit: courtesy of KSQ Therapeutics…
People with type 2 diabetes tend to have poorer muscle function than others. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that…
A new study sequencing the genome of four species of sifakas (Propithecus), a genus of lemurs found in Madagascar’s forests, reveals that these animals’ taste…
Genetic material from COVID-19 can survive up to a month in dust, a new study has found, offering a possible low-cost way to track outbreaks.…
Grass crops are able to bend the rules of evolution by borrowing genes from their neighbors, giving them a competitive advantage, a new study has…
Heterochromatin enrichment across chromosomes. Immunofluorescence staining for H3K9me3 in male mitotic chromosomes. Scale bar is 50μm. Credit: Nguyen AH et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics DNA…
Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children’s brains to develop abnormally, resulting in delayed intellectual development and often early onset cataracts.…
Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths. But new collaborative research by…
In mice deficient in USAG-1, an antagonist of BMP, the trace deciduous incisors survive and erupt as excess teeth. Credit: Kyoto University/Katsu Takahashi Antibody for…
Credit: Caltech A good way to find out what a cell is doing—whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under…
New research reveals how cancer cells endure stress and survive. Publishing in Molecular Cell, an international research team identified mechanisms that human and mouse cells…
Dendritic cells (co-stained Red/green) in a lymphoid follicle (peyer’s patch) draining the intestine (blue). Credit: Wang Cao and Shengbo Zhang, WEHI Using a new single-cell…