The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

Abstract: Consensus sequences are reconstructed representations of original DNA strands, generated by aligning and combining multiple fragmented reads. This paper presents zkConsensus, a ...

DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The last two decades ...

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Introduction: There is an urgent need for influenza vaccine strategies that enhance protection against influenza virus drift and across different subtypes. The conserved viral nucleoprotein (NP) is ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, ...