📜🦠 #DNA recovered from medieval parchment has helped reconstruct the 3,500-year history of #Sheeppox, showing how old manuscripts can preserve #genetic records of #livestock #diseases.

#Virus #AncientDNA #Genomics #Microsky via @arstechnica.com

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Researchers have now identified four additional members of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition, including one sailor whose identity had been debated for more than 100 years. scitechdaily.com/dna-solves-a... #genomics #CdnSci #SciChat #archaeology #anthropology #science #SciChat

#Genomics-assisted #breeding for designing #salinity-smart future crops

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience @plantbiotechj.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantbasednews.bsky.social @plantbiotech.bsky.social @plantbiotechnology.bsky.social @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social

Weekly reads 31/08/26:
How AI, organoids, and GLP-1 agonists are unlocking new frontiers in biology and medicine

behindthebioinformatics.substack.com/p/weekly-rea...

#Genomics #SingleCell #Ageing #CancerResearch #ComputationalBiologyy

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Our results support the western and eastern GFH populations (H.m. ivoriensis and H.m. meinertzhageni) as distinct evolutionary significant units (ESUs).
#Genomics #Conservation #Evolution

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The Guinean population has exceptionally low #genetic diversity 🧬.
This appears to reflect a long history of low effective population size rather than recent inbreeding. Ongoing habitat loss, degradation, fragmentation & hunting may further increase genetic erosion.
#Genomics #Conservation

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One of our most striking findings is the extreme genetic differentiation between GFHs from Guinea and Uganda, which is comparable to, and in some cases exceeds, that seen between recognized African #suid species. 🐗🐗🐗
#Genomics #Conservation #Evolution

🧵1/5 🧬 New paper from our group!

We present the first whole-genome data for the giant forest hog, #Hylochoerus #meinertzhageni (GFH), filling a major gap in our understanding of African #suid #evolution 🐗🧬
📖 Read the full paper in iScience:
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
#Genomics #Conservation

A student has been using hair from a 120-year-old museum exhibit of a museum bear to help find new ways of solving wildlife crime. www.bbc.com/news/article... #forensics #genomics #Taxidermy #science #SciChat

ntSynt-vis, a robust tool for visualizing synteny analyses in genomes. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

#bioinformatics #genomics

Genome sequencing reveals chromosomal fusion behind early XY sex chromosome evolution in catfish
#evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #genomics
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🧬 Roughly half your DNA used to live somewhere else in your DNA.

A jumping gene needs one molecule to cut itself free — but the switch that makes it only flips after the escape. A chicken-and-egg paradox since 2024.

UTokyo's answer: the switch leaks.

#BridgeRNA #Genomics

Mechanistic validation for this upstream MR hyper-activation was published in BBRC (Katsu et al., 2026), proving that the #rs5522 variant alters the receptor's threshold for cortisol.
#Science
#AcademicSky
#medsky
#SciSky
#BioSky
#genomics
#genetics
#biophysics

astrobiology.com/2026/09/05/e... #astrobiology #genomics #bioinformatics #extremophiles #Biotechnology

Cheetahs that roamed the Yukon 30,000 years ago were not technically cheetahs at all, but relatives of the puma that adapted to mostly eat fish instead of antelopes in a harsh northern climate. ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art... #palaeontology #CdnSci #genomics #science #SciChat

Missense variant effect prediction remains a bottleneck in diagnostic genetics, and current predictors rely on clinical outcomes or population patterns rather than direct measures of functional impact, which creates data circularity.

#bioinformatics #genomics #compbio

University of Washington is hiring:
Postdoctoral Scholar

#postdoc #genomics #somaticevolution

Whole-genome duplication in *Potamopyrgus antipodarum* reveals rare polyploid stability, offering a fresh lens on evolutionary genomics and structural resilience.

#Genomics #Biotech stridingtech.com/archives/6678

Here is an update on our nanopore sequencing activities showing the output per flow cell:

www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#...

The data are mostly from plant DNA, with some microbial genomes also included.
#LongReads #Genomics
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LAUNCHING: A Vision Paper by Professor Joy Zhang, Dr Andy Jin, Sarah Norcross and Sandy Starr.
You can access the comment piece in full for free in BioNews: www.progress.org.uk/after-attitu...
Funded by Wellcome
#Ethics #genetics #genomics #science #publicengagement