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There’s a gene in our DNA that seems to come from an infection by an ancient virus—but no one knows its true purpose
You're walking around right now carrying the genetic fingerprints of infections that happened millions of years ago. Deep ...
A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...
An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...
New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...
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AI meets DNA: US scientists design massive genetic circuit libraries faster than ever
The new technique is called CLASSIC, an acronym for “combining long and short range sequencing to investigate genetic ...
Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...
A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...
Researchers are now exploring how to best extract and use saliva-derived DNA for long-read sequencing applications. Download ...
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