Genetics & Genomics

48+ min ago   (533+ words) A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoises has lived on an island in the Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll. The most recent survey,…...

52+ min ago   (546+ words) Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (548+ words) Genome sequencing of the 194-year-old Aldabra tortoise reveals 287 genetic variants tied to DNA repair and mitochondrial regulation Jonathan the Aldabra giant tortoise was already an adult when Charles Darwin was still alive. Now estimated at 194 years old and still living…...

13+ hour, 5+ min ago   (119+ words) Nature (2026) Cite this article The Original Article was published on 30 September 2026 In the version of the article initially published, Marcelo A. Navarrete’s surname appeared incorrectly (as Navarrette) and has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article....

2+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1443+ words) AI executives are betting big on biology. They say their large language models that have already dramatically changed the fields of coding and software development and mathematics can upend biological research in the same way. But one company’s attempt to…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (818+ words) The genetic mapping of almost the entire kākāpō population has shed new light on specific traits that will help conservation biologists in their efforts to save the critically endangered flightless night parrots. It also provides a blueprint for conservation genomics…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (516+ words) Jonathan hatched in about 1832 in the Seychelles and is the oldest land animal The DNA from the world’s oldest tortoise may hold the secret to human ageing, as scientists say the animal’s super genes could lead to treatments that slow…...

3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (458+ words) Genetic analysis of bone fragments from Denisova Cave has uncovered a previously unknown extinct bovine, nicknamed “yak X.” Researchers recovered at least 20 genomes from the animal, which split from the modern Himalayan yak around 400,000 years ago. Denisova Cave, in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (790+ words) "If DNA is such important genetic information, why do cells go out of their way to cut it?" In high school biology, we learn that DNA is accurately replicated and passed from cell to cell. However, in meiosis, where we…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1099+ words) With the GAL4/UAS system introduced so far, we have been able to genetically manipulate "which cells express what." The FLP/FRT system introduced this time has a slightly different concept. What is important in the FLP/FRT system is that…...