Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and ...

Ferns, defined by large genomes, high chromosome counts, and pervasive aneuploidy as well as intraspecific polyploid ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

The red wolf ( Canis rufus) is a medium-sized canid that stands about 26 inches (66 centimeters) at the shoulder and measures ...

Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is becoming more common, but doctors say treatments are improving. The condition is a quivering or irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke and ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

In a cave nestled high in the Calabrian mountains, ancient bones have revealed a shocking genetic discovery: a child born ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and ...