Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

As a species, we have had a close relationship with cannabis for thousands of years now. In fact, it is among the earliest ...

His lab uses evolutionary trees, inferred from DNA sequence data, to investigate speciation ... he created the first generally applicable quantitative theory of phylogenetic experimental design, which ...

Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.

Previously, gene editing wasn't advanced enough to be able to change all of the differing sequences to thylacine DNA in one go ... was killed by a falling tree. Sadly, the new-born died of ...

This repository provides an easy-to-use Python-based pipeline for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from whole bacterial genomes. It automates the process of identifying orthologous single-copy genes, ...