Category: Genetics

If you have a German Shepherd, you’re probably familiar with the damaging…

It seems like every week there’s a new diet, exercise, or supplement that…

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book and learn how typos alter the story.

AlphaGenome, created by Google DeepMind, is the latest in an ever-improving line of AI…

Just like humans, most organisms that reproduce via sex are diploid, meaning…

Honeybees are vital to global food security, yet colony collapse threatens…

There is a genetic feature known as a repeat expansion, in which short sequences are repeated continuously. Some of them naturally get longer as we age, but there are also over 60 diseases that can be caused…

If The Holy Child, a famed Renaissance-era sketch of Baby Jesus, could speak,…

The tiny little powerhouses of our cells: mitochondria, are unique among organelles because they carry their own tiny little genomes. This genetic material is separate from the rest of our genomic DNA, which…

A research team led by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology scientists has generated the high-quality genome assembly of a Denisovan using DNA from an ancient molar found at Denisova Cave. It belonged to a man who lived roughly…