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 ...
BioTechniques

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 ...
Field Museum

This pinecone-looking animal is the world’s most-trafficked mammal. New analysis of its DNA and a rebuilt family tree could help save it from poaching.

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...
Scientific American

Earth is home to 20 million insect species—three times more than we thought

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

DNA databases unite to create a fully open resource for transposable element research

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...