Crop pests cause substantial yield losses worldwide and pose persistent challenges to sustainable agriculture.

Researchers are applying insights into the genetic variations and physiology of obesity to apply tailored interventions to ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Peer-reviewed / Observational study / PeopleExposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggestsHumans' exposure to ...

Study Suggests Italy's Brown Bears Became Less Aggressive Over Time Because of Humans ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation ...

Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Genome assemblies from 65 individuals, representing a variety of the world’s populations, are advancing the scientific exploration of complex genetic structural variation. Structural variations are ...