The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Now, his DNA has enabled scientists to explore the genetics of 1920s ...
Evolution
Apr 27, 2023
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The genomes of two hornet species, the European hornet and the Asian hornet (or yellow-legged hornet) have been sequenced for the first time by a team led by UCL (University College London) scientists.
Evolution
Apr 21, 2023
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A high-throughput single-cell single-mitochondrial genome sequencing technology known as iMiGseq has provided new insights into mutations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and offers a platform for assessing mtDNA editing strategies ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 13, 2023
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The completion of the full "telomere-to-telomere" (T2T) human genome last year emphasized that genome sequences that were previously thought to be "complete" were not, in fact, complete at all.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 5, 2023
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The history of the Earth has been one of physical extremes—extreme atmospheric conditions, extreme chemical environments, and extreme temperatures. There was a time when the Earth was so hot all the water was vapor, and ...
Evolution
Mar 27, 2023
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University of Minnesota students conducted crucial genome sequencing for the newly discovered soybean gall midge—a pest that is threatening the soybean crop, one of the most widely cultivated and consumed throughout the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2023
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Most of what scientists know about viruses in animals is the list of nucleotides that compose their genomic sequence—which, while valuable, offers very few hints about a virus's ability to infect humans.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 10, 2023
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The faba bean genome, which at 13 billion bases is more than four times the size of the human genome, has been sequenced for the first time and is published in Nature. This is an extraordinary technical achievement and crucial ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 8, 2023
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The Danish creeks, Odense Å and Lindved Å, have surprised researchers and students at SDU by containing previously unknown virus species.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 16, 2023
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National Institutes of Health researchers have developed and released an innovative software tool to assemble truly complete (i.e., gapless) genome sequences from a variety of species. This software, called Verkko, which ...
Biotechnology
Feb 16, 2023
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