An international project has uncovered millions of ancient DNA 'switches' that have been regulating plant genes for up to 300 million years - a ...

To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us ...

After research spanning more than 30 years, Jordi Bascompte, Bartolo Luque, Fernando Ballesteros, and Enrique Muro managed to explain the abrupt change in living beings that allowed the appearance of ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Spread the loveIn a significant breakthrough for plant genomics, researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, alongside international collaborators, have unveiled a treasure trove of ancient ...

When we think of evolution, the gradual evolutionary change comes to mind: dinosaurs turning into birds, ancient forests ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Scientists discovered 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences—some hundreds of millions of years old—using Conservatory, a new comparative plant genomics platform.

You've heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today's geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant ...