NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The UN on July 1 released proposals to share the use of “digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI)” — the DNA sequences of plants, animals and microbes — to support ...

Deep in Arctic waters, the Greenland shark can liveup to 400 years, a record among vertebrates. Scientists have now decoded ...

Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of ...

For decades, biologists assumed a single ‘turtle tick’ crawled across much of Asia. Now detailed DNA and microscope work show ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? An unassuming freshwater fish contains the longest genomic sequence ever discovered, ...

Polar bears are changing at a genetic level in response to climate change. This is what it means for the rest of the Arctic.

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

An international team of scientists have discovered ancient fossil chromosomes preserved in a glass-like state in the skin of a 52,000 year old female woolly mammoth, revealing a treasure trove of ...

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“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

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 ...