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First Complete Wiring Diagram of an Animal's Nervous System

July 8, 2019

Recent findings involving the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans mark a major milestone in the field of 'connectomics...

Tracking Life's First Step: Two Molecules 'Awaken' Brand New Genome

June 19, 2019

How life's first step happens has long fascinated developmental biologists

Genetic Code of WWI Soldier's Cholera Mapped

April 10, 2019

The bacterium was isolated from a British soldier and stored for more than 100 years before being revived and sequenced...

Study Confirms Horseshoe Crabs Are Really Relatives of Spiders, Scorpions

March 11, 2019

Horseshoe crabs were thought to be ancestors of the arachnids, but molecular sequence data have always been sparse enough to ...

DNA Tool Allows You to Trace Your Ancient Ancestry

January 15, 2019

Currently, the study of ancient DNA requires a lot of information to classify a skeleton to a population or find its biogeogr...

How Much Are We Learning? Natural Selection Is Science’s Best Critic

December 18, 2018

Researchers have already concluded that a mere one percent of the human genome is made up of the genes that make the proteins...

DNA of World's Oldest Natural Mummy Unlocks Secrets of Ice Age Tribes in the Americas

November 9, 2018

A legal battle over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Nati...

New CRISPR Tool Opens Up More of the Genome for Editing

October 26, 2018

Enzyme can target almost half of the genome's "zipcodes" and could enable editing of many more disease-specific mutations...

Expanding Fungal Diversity, One Cell at a Time

October 9, 2018

More than a million species of fungi are estimated to live on this planet, but most of that diversity remains unknown

Finding Nemo's Genes

September 11, 2018

An international team of researchers has mapped Nemo's genome

Researchers Predict Risk for Common Deadly Diseases from Millions of Genetic Variants

August 14, 2018

Through this "polygenic risk scoring," researchers can identify people at high risk for disease, even if they don't present o...

New RNA, DNA-Sequencing Platform Matches Thousands of Drugs to Late-Stage Cancer Patients

August 14, 2018

A comprehensive RNA and DNA sequencing platform benefits late-stage and drug-resistant multiple myeloma patients by determini...

Study Challenges Evolution of FOXP2 as Human-Specific Language Gene

August 7, 2018

FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-...

The Highly Complex Sugarcane Genome Has Finally Been Sequenced

July 12, 2018

CIRAD and its partners had to use cunning to establish the first sugarcane reference sequence

Gene Discovery Unlocks Mysteries to Our Immunity

July 2, 2018

Australia's national science agency CSIRO has identified a new gene that plays a critical role in regulating the body's immun...

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