Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and adaptation, ...

Inherited changes in the architecture of the human genome, far larger than the single-letter mutations that have dominated ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, an obligate fungal pathogen, threatens wheat production worldwide. Using 319 genomes and virulence data from 234 isolates globally, this study constructs its ...

New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the ...

In Ewing sarcoma, an abnormal protein formed by the fusion of two genes can activate repetitive DNA regions that normally ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

Researchers have assembled the first gap-free telomere-to-telomere licorice genome and identified the GiPHL1-Gi4CL5 ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

Before 2026, no documentation existed of a human gene that was both mobile and required for bodily functions. However, ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...

Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to design fully functional viral genomes, a first for the technology. The team generated 16 viable ...