Evolution is driven by changes in DNA that sometimes promote adaptation, altering traits like disease resistance or ...

Common ancestor eels lost the aquaporin gene encoding proteins with broad solute permeability. Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo have now found that recent gene duplication events in the ...

Researchers at USC have developed a yeast model to study a gene mutation that disrupts the duplication of DNA, causing massive damage to a cell's chromosomes, while somehow allowing the cell to ...

Researchers have uncovered how specific DNA rearrangements called inverted triplications contribute to the development of various genetic diseases. The study reveals that during DNA repair, segments ...

Biological evolution is recorded in the genomeThe history of life deciphered from DNAAn organism's genome contains not only the information needed to build its current body, but also the remnants of ...

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), which relies on cell-free fetal DNA in the mother's blood, is increasingly common. Yet two studies published online Apri 1 in the New England Journal of Medicine ...

A study led by researchers from the Dementia Neurobiology Group at the Sant Pau Research Institute, published today in the journal Nature Medicine, has identified that almost all individuals with two ...

Cotton is one of the most economically important fiber crops on the planet, yet its fields are increasingly battered by heat waves, cold snaps, soil salinity, and drought. A new genome-wide ...

Approximately four billion years ago, the first forms of life emerged on Earth. For eons, biological life consisted of prokaryotic organisms, either early bacteria or archaea. Determining when ...