12-08-29 The international research team led by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and BGI have completed the genome sequence and analysis of a diploid（双倍的） cotton-- Gossypium raimondii. The cotton genome provides an invaluable resource for the st...

12-07-02 Popularly dubbed the book of life, the human genome is extraordinarily difficult to read. But without full knowledge of its grammar and syntax（语法，句法） , the genome's 2.9 billion base-pairs of adenine（腺嘌呤） and thymine（胸腺嘧啶） , cytosin...

12-06-05 An interdisciplinary（各学科间的） team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), have just published the most comprehensive analysis to date of the corn genome. The te...

12-03-08 Researchers have just completed the genome sequence for the gorilla -- the last genus of the living great apes to have its genome decoded. While confirming that our closest relative is the chimpanzee（黑猩猩） , the team show that much of the human...

11-10-13 BGI, the world's largest genomic organization, announced that an international team of researchers from Korea, China and the U.S. has, for the first time, demonstrated the physiology and longevity of the naked mole rats (NMR) in terms of genomics an...

11-10-13 An international team -- led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany -- has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. This marks the first time sci...

11-08-20 Kangaroos form an important niche in the tree of life, but until now their DNA had never been sequenced. In an article newly published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, an international consortium（财团，联合） of researchers p...

11-07-12 By honing in on the mysterious potato genome and its tuber（块茎） its edible（可食用的） portion researchers are unveiling the secrets of the world's most-important nongrain food crop. Robin Buell, Michigan State University plant biologist, is part...

11-06-28 A revolutionary species-preservation approach based on whole-genome analyses of two Tasmanian devils（袋獾） -- one that had died of a contagious（感染性的） cancer known as Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) and one healthy animal -- has been used t...

11-04-09 A newly sequenced bacterial genome from a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could contain clues as to how microorganisms produce a highly toxic form of mercury（水银） . Methylmercury（甲基水银） , a potent human n...