The collaboration found some parts of genomes remained the same for all mammalian species over millions of years of evolution, indicating regulatory functions essential to health.
An international collaboration of more than 100 scientists has built and analyzed the world's largest comparative resource on mammalian genomics – including the genome of the Siberian Husky that led a sled dog team carrying a lifesaving diphtheria serum to Nome, Alaska, in 1925.
The Zoonomia Project published 11 papers in the journal Science on Thursday that catalogue the diversity in the genomes of 240 species of mammals, representing more than 80% of mammalian families.
IUGS rejected declaring that we live in a new epoch defined by far-reaching human impacts on the planet since the 1950s.
Proposed by the U.S. and co-sponsored by China and more than 120 other nations, its passage represented a moment of international cooperation through science diplomacy.
A top U.N. official cites strong concerns about mental privacy, which is 'a line that we should not cross at all' as AI develops.
The Open Quantum Institute began a three-year pilot phase hosted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
The humanitarian nightmare and attacks on civilians in Gaza dominated the U.N. Security Council's quarterly open debate.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
