All mammals have basically the same set of genes, yet there are obviously some significant differences that distinguish the various species. Recent research suggests that one such difference involves ...

Sharpening a test for tracing food-borne illness to source Date: June 23, 2014 Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary: Research could make it easier for public health investigators to ...

A research team has recently constructed a global polymorphism genetic map of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), termed the NyuWa VNTR Polymorphism Map. The team has generated maps using ...

Researchers used long-read sequencing to examine the evolution of short tandem repeats and variable number tandem repeats, series of repeating nucleotide sequences that are among the most unstable ...

A research team led by Profs. XU Tao and HE Shunmin from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently constructed a global polymorphism genetic map of variable number ...