genetics

Fourteen Spanish research groups have obtained the first draft of the genome sequence of melon (Cucumis melo), a species with a long genetic history.

A team of scientists at the University of California at Irvine has detected a genetic variation whose carriers show 20 percent worse results in driving tests than subjects with a different DNA sequence.

The Japanese multinational of beverages Suntory has presented in Tokyo what they claim is the world's first blue rose, the holy grail of horticulturists. Achieving this milestone took nearly two decades of research.

Spanish scientists have discovered that the amount of mitochondrial DNA, inherited directly from the mother, influences the ease with which an individual burns excess energy consumed.

Three Americans, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, have just received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of an enzyme that helps keep chromosomes in cells young.

A team of American scientists could be close to finding a cure for color blindness, according to the journal Nature.

Aversion to spiders, snakes and other dangerous animals and insects is genetic in origin and more common among women, a new study reveals.

Every human being has between 100 and 200 accumulated mutations in their DNA, most of which are harmless and have no obvious effects on health or physical appearance, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology.