14-10-15 The house fly might be a worldwide pest, but its genome will provide information that could improve our lives. From insights into pathogen immunity, to pest control and decomposing waste, the 691 Mb genome has been sequenced and analyzed by a global...

14-09-20 Researchers in Biomedical Informatics at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and at the Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC) have recently published a study in eLife showing that RNA called non-coding (IncRNA) plays an important...

14-09-03 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have produced the first complete genome sequencing of a strain of E. coli that is a common cause of outbreaks of food poisoning in the United States. Although the E. coli strain EDL933 was first...

14-08-26 In a study published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Uppsala University present the first global analysis of genome variation in honeybees. The findings show a surprisingly high level of genetic diversity in honeybees, and indicate that the spe...

14-08-14 Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge（蚊，蠓） suspect the genome's small size -- the smallest in insects described to date -- can probably be explained by the midge's adaptation to its extreme living environment. The midge is...

14-07-22 A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset（狨猴） -- the first sequence of a New World Monkey -- providing new informa...

14-05-29 Striving for the protein equivalent of the Human Genome Project, an international team of researchers has created an initial catalog of the human proteome（蛋白质组） , or all of the proteins in the human body. In total, using 30 different human tis...

14-05-08 The power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to detect genetic influences on human disease can be substantially increased using a statistical testing framework reported in the May issue of the journal GENETICS. Despite the proliferation of GW...

14-04-09 Technical objections to the idea that Neandertals interbred with the ancestors of Eurasians have been overcome, thanks to a genome analysis method described in the April 2014 issue of the journal Genetics. The technique can more confidently detect t...

14-03-28 A group of scientists from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and UC Berkeley report the first mapping of genome methylation（甲基化） in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster in their paper Genome methylation in D. melanogaster is found...