The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, including three ...

Barbara Rae-Venter never anticipated that her genealogy hobby would lead to the capture of one of California's most notorious ...

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The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it's in constant flux.

Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived during a period of great change.

A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of more than 9,500 flowering plants was recently achieved by scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, together with collaborators ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Vast DNA tree of life for plants revealed by global science team using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Researchers have now created a DNA tree of life, showing how different plant species are related to each other, by comparing the DNA sequences of over 9,500 flowering plants.