In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Cornell (NY, USA) researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move ...

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

At the mercy of natural selection since the dawn of life, our ancestors adapted, mated and died, passing on tiny genetic mutations that eventually made humans what we are today. But evolution isn't ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...