Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...

PanMAN data structures compress pangenomes massively, encode evolutionary histories, and enable scalable analysis of millions of genomes.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

A new study in worms may help explain why sexual reproduction with a partner beats going it alone, evolutionarily speaking of course. Through a three-year experiment, University professor Patrick ...

How do cells know what they should become as the body develops? Biological development depends crucially on spatial patterns: the lines that eventually give rise to segments, organs, or markings like ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...