For more than 150 years, scientists have debated when and how the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand ...

A new study published in the Journal of Helminthology by researchers from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and the ...

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them to be studied at sufficient resolution. This is the case for the SST1/NBL2 ...

New York City’s East River has made quite the comeback since its days as a sewage dumping ground—and sequencing the waterway’s DNA may illuminate its regained biodiversity. Researchers from The ...

KRASNOPOLYE DISTRICT, 14 April (BelTA) - During a visit to the Paluzh fish farm in Krasnopolye District, Mogilev Oblast, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko instructed that the experience of ...

The historical lore behind the Shroud of Turin is fascinating. Notwithstanding the grand claim that the linen cloth enveloped Jesus Christ himself, the exact origins and genetic content of the relic ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Fishers are members of the mustelid family, with close relatives including wolverines and pine martens. (Courtesy of Mike Schwartz, USDA Forest Service Researcher) Nathan Kluge affixes a scent pump to ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...

Ever since Jennifer Aniston, Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian—to name just a few celebs—touted the perks of a salmon sperm facial, the unique ingredient has taken skincare by storm. Salmon DNA boasts ...