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Nature, Published online: 16 July 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-02208-3 Birds use a unique mechanism to balance gene expression from their sex chromosomes. MiR-2954 is a microRNA that suppresses specific target genes, preventing…
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The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 bc) produced many lasting artefacts — but little DNA has survived.Credit: Azoor Photo/Alamy Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that…
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA Tim H. H. Coorens, Boxun Zhao, Adam Voshall, Kristin G. Ardlie, Bradley E. Bernstein, Jason D. Buenrostro, Kathleen H. Burns, Fei…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 02 July 2025 The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals,…
Jim Kent knew a thing or two about coding. A veteran of the early days of personal computing, Kent developed software for Amiga, Atari and IBM computers throughout the 1980s,…
Researchers feed vast quantities of genomic data into machine-learning systems to train them to predict the role of non-coding sequences.Credit: JuSun/iStock via Getty Nearly 25 years after scientists completed a…
Green anole lizards can regenerate their tails after injury, an ability that could inform treatments for people.Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty After an injury, some flatworms can regrow almost every…
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 18 June 2025 Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the…