Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

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.

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

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

LONDON — Could genes from the dawn of life hold the key to a stem cell revolution? A groundbreaking experiment could make it ...

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

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...