How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Central Michigan University has received nearly $900,000 as part of a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Science ...

A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that significantly enhances the analysis capabilities of biological data by incorporating ...

Millions of years of evolution have turned horns into biological Swiss Army knives. They’re used for digging, defense, ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely biological nature. But according to ecologist Mark Vellend, this sort of ...

Genetics may no longer be the driving force of human evolution, a study by researchers from the University of Maine suggests.

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker's yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity ...

Structural reconstruction of thousands of ancient nitrogenases through Earth’s history uncovers architectural constraints that shaped their evolution under global environmental transitions.

Norm and I never published our findings because other researchers had a similar hunch and published their findings in ...