Japan discovers its first new bird species since 1982, and it was hiding in a lookalike warbler's DNA

Scientists may have just identified a new bird species in Japan for the first time since 1982, after genetic evidence split ...

My father died of cancer at 72. A $12,000 longevity exam at a Silicon Valley clinic found both good and bad news in my DNA.

I enrolled in Human Longevity's executive health program. My cancer results were reassuring, but my genetic results left me a ...

Purine-heavy DNA sequences protect Bacillus subtilis genes from Rho termination

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

A holoparasitic plant replaces its own genes with host DNA to survive

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...
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Soil searching: new dPCR ‘DNA test’ roots out plants’ subterranean secrets

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...