When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...

Correlation does not equal causation. Every cancer cell has genetic mutations, but not all of those mutations necessarily ...

Plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich sugars and oxygen in various ways (photosynthesis).

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

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 ...

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...

A living, synthetic cell has been made by transplanting a complete genome into a dead bacterium, bringing it back to life. The breakthrough could help synthetic biology live up to its huge, but still ...