Extra chromosomes, found in some fish, contain copied genes that don’t work but can still impact the organism. Research shows ...

Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

Structural variations (SVs)—large-scale changes in DNA sequence—play a crucial role in shaping traits such as yield, quality, and environmental adaptation in crops.