A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more than 380 million years. The first evidence of teeth in any vertebrate ...

Cancer is a multifaceted disease characterized by profound genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic alterations. Traditional genomic approaches ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

New research reveals how human brain evolution may explain autism’s high prevalence, highlighting genetic trade-offs in ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things - including a crucial event that happened ...

Researchers are now exploring how different types of repetitive DNA create genome instability and structurally variant chromosomes.

An ambitious and revolutionary initiative aims to map every cell of all eukaryotic life on Earth. The result will be a ...

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...