#Genetic

A new global study of nearly 1,900 species, co-authored by National CASC scientists, shows that species with higher genetic diversity are better able to persist in changing conditions and expand their ranges as the climate warms.

Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry

Biologists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg use Co-Scientist to scan thousands of papers and identify over 20 novel factors that could reverse cellular aging.

An investigation of the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank has identified more than 88,000 associations between more than 8,000 genomic regions and metabolic traits.…

Generations of “sociobiologists” have tried and failed to argue that genetic analysis offers the key to understanding social inequality. A new book fares no better.

From Popular Science: 1.3 million people share DNA with Maryland’s earliest colonists

A survey of more than 300 mouse strains has found widespread discrepancies between how mutant mice are reported and their actual genetic make-up.…

Lifting a veil of uncertainty in blackberry genetics, a national team of horticulture scientists have discovered evidence pointing to the single genetic region that controls primocane-fruiting, or the ability to flower and fruit on first-year canes.

When species are subjected to changing environments, they can survive in their current location through genetic adaptation. However, this ability is not unlimited.…

Until now, studying the genetic processes in cells required destroying them—making it impossible to observe these processes over extended periods of time.…

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.…

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce strikingly similar warning colors.…

Mississippi State University biologist Matthew W. Brown is part of an international research team whose latest findings, published this spring in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are reshaping scientific understanding of how parasitic…

The UK is driving pioneering malaria research in areas including genetic engineering, vaccines, and medicines. In Tanzania, the scientists involved tell Nick Ferris why research to tackle the disease and save lives is so important, particularly given the…

From Reddit - r/todayilearned: TIL about Prader-Willi syndrome, which is a genetic disorder. Among other issues, children have almost unsatiable hunger due to high levels of ghrelin (ie. the hunger hormone) and can thus become obese easily.…

Location: Wisconsin I had a consult to discuss options for a health problem I was experiencing. During this consult, genetic testing was discussed, along with other alternatives.…

The genes that could help the world's crops survive drought, heat, and disease probably already exist. But much of this genetic diversity remains hidden within ancient plant varieties and forgotten seed collections, among millions of DNA differences that…

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa.…

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on tiny algae cells living within their tissues that photosynthesize and produce energy.…

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were descended from the same lineage and had very similar DNA