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 ...
Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...
A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...
The human genome is chock full of what scientists once considered "junk DNA." This DNA is actually something called transposable elements, or TEs. These are repetitive sequences found in the genome ...
Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...
A whole-genome sequencing approach shows early promise over current commercial methods for identifying more patients likely ...
How do you define biosecurity in the context of DNA? Peccoud: An internet search for biosecurity will return stories about security measures aimed at preventing pests or infectious agents from ...