A new study suggests a simple letter change can reverse sex development, causing a mouse with female chromosomes (XX) to develop male genitalia. The mutation responsible for the change was not in ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions of the cell, the rest of the genome cannot be ignored. However, for decades ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing. The human genome is a vast landscape, with less than 2% of its sequence encoding proteins. For many years, ...

DNA barcoding employs short, standardised genetic regions to identify plant species by comparing unknown samples against a reference library of verified sequences. Unlike the mitochondrial COI gene ...