Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark cave environments, with some lineages dating back over 11 million years.

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

The microscopic alliance between algae and bacteria offers rare, step-by-step snapshots of how bacteria lose genes and adapt to increasing host dependence. This is shown by a new study led by ...

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right ...

University of Kansas researcher Gloria Arratia serves as editor and contributor to the just-published first volume of ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain’s remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

A new fossil study by scientists challenges long-held ideas of fish evolution, revealing surprising insights into early ...

A study led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz provides the first direct evidence that species that never interact can ...

LIYAM CHITAYAT is a Hertz Fellow and MIT Ph.D. student in Computational Systems Biology. She has previously led biodefense ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Today, almost exactly a century after the infamous Scopes “Monkey” Trial in July 1925, many conservative American Christians ...