Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Non-reversible nucleotide substitution models best describe strand-specific nucleotide substitution biases of viral genomes.

Few species have their own sequenced genome, so genetic researchers often use DNA sequences from a related species as a stand-in. A study published in Cell shows that in animals such as gray foxes, ...

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An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Yanli from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the ...

“De novo genes are often overlooked because they emerge from noncoding DNA and lack evolutionary history,” said lead author Yuepeng Han. “Our study shows that these genes are not only real but also ...

At the heart of the case against the man accused of the Gilgo Beach killings is DNA evidence — but the novel way that evidence was tested may now determine whether prosecutors can use it against their ...