A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, ...

A printed version of the entire human genome would fill 220 large books. To do the same for a small, seemingly unremarkable fern found on a few Pacific islands would require nearly 11,000 books. The ...

The PippinHT system serves as an automated tool for DNA size selection in NGS applications. Leveraging the company's esteemed sizing technology, PippinHT enhances throughput to 24 samples per run, a ...

A genome is the complete set of genetic information contained within an organism. It includes all the DNA that makes up an organism's chromosomes, which are tightly coiled structures located in the ...

Kimberley Simpson receives funding from the British Ecological Society and the Natural Environment Research Council. All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one ...