What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...

DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more.

For example, the activity of genes can be altered by what are called epigenetic modifications—a chemical alteration of some bases that don't change the DNA sequence.

Because sequencing is performed on a sample that contains both maternal and placental DNA, it is not surprising that many false positive results are of maternal origin. 32 In one study, two thirds ...

The finished sequence of human chromosome 20 comprises 59,187,298 base pairs (bp) and represents 99.4% of the euchromatic DNA. A single contig of 26 megabases (Mb) spans the entire short arm, and ...

This Review presents a quantitative framework for translating DNA sequences into transcriptional behaviours. Such a model, based on the binding affinity landscape of molecules to genomic sequences ...

Using the oldest DNA sample from Egypt to date, researchers have extracted and sequenced the entire genome of an adult male who lived in the region between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, and in doing so ...

A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world’s oldest DNA sequence. It’s the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal ...