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

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, ...

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

Researchers have explored the evolution of the genetic change that causes chronic myeloid leukaemia and show its ability to drive the disease.

Now Drexel researchers have developed a simple DNA PCR-based lab test ... the authors built out this "family tree" much further. Using genome sequencing and genomic metrics on 129 Gardnerella ...

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators used whole genome sequencing to study when BCR ... This is akin to creating family trees of cells – known as phylogenetic trees – ...

The tool, called PsiPartition, improves both the computational efficiency of the data analysis and the accuracy of the phylogenetic trees that ... Modern sequencing technologies produce huge ...