Neanderthals vanished as a distinct population tens of thousands of years ago, but they never fully disappeared. Most people ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

In flowering plants, the genomes of cytoplasmic organelles – mitochondria and plastids – are typically inherited from the maternal parent, insulating them from the recombination that operates on ...

Advances in genome assembly methods helped researchers complete reference genomes for humans, marmosets, songbirds, and more, accelerating genomic research.

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

New research reveals non-Mendelian epigenetic inheritance in mice, challenging genetic assumptions and suggesting new avenues ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

The zebra finch is one of the best-studied songbirds and a model for understanding the biology and neuroscience of vocal ...

Scientists found that cells across animals, plants, fungi and many single-celled organisms use remarkably similar ancient mechanisms to activate genes, suggesting these rules may date back about 2 ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

The signals that cells use to switch genes on have remained almost unchanged across 2 billion years of evolution, but the ones used to switch genes off vary dramatically from one branch of life to ...

Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ...