In this new paper, Mitchell and Cheney—a geneticist and a computer scientist—draw an analogy with machine ... for our understanding of how genetic variation influences traits and how species ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

ZSI scientists resolve taxonomic ambiguities surrounding South Asian treeshrews, highlighting morphological diversity and ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute-funded Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) ...

and lessens their likelihood of drawing spurious conclusions about the genetic or other factors driving disease 8, 9. The availability of large-scale multimodal data and advanced statistical and ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

but this work is done in poultry being raised in villages in Africa and Asia that have more genetic variation. Commercial chickens in the U.S. are bred to be as genetically identical as possible ...