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Evolution
Evolution: the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. Repeated formation of new species, change within species, and loss of species throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological "tree of life" based on evolutionary relationships, using both existing species and fossils.
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DEC 09, 2021Microbiology
Microplastics pose a clear threat to the environment. They have been found nearly everywhere, from remote areas like the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2021Space & Astronomy
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Microbes are engaged in a never-ending battle, and they have ways of attacking each other as well as defense mechanisms.Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 22, 2021Genetics & Genomics
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A new study has used computational tools to investigate evolution in the human genome that's occurred over the past 50,0 ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2021
Microbiology
Microplastics pose a clear threat to the environment. They have been found nearly everywhere, from remote areas like the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Scientists discovered an exoplanet that has some wild characteristics. This exoplanet, called GJ 367b, was identified by
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2021
Clinical & Molecular DX
By Julianne Davis - Technical Writer and Support Scientist at Biotium The Rise of the Lab-on-a-Chip With the advent of m
...
DEC 05, 2021
Health & Medicine
Many researchers have been working diligently to track the evolution of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
When a small or medium-sized star reaches the end of its life, it becomes a white dwarf. Suns produce energy by fusing h
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
NOV 30, 2021
Plants & Animals
Tardigrades might be the toughest little creatures around. These minuscule eight-legged vertebrates can survive in outer
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2021
Health & Medicine
A new study published in Science Advances proposes hexadecenal as the first pheromone scientifically linked to aggr
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
NOV 29, 2021
Microbiology
It's estimated that about 240 million people worldwide have an HBV infection. Hepatitis B infections are linked to t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The biology of organisms can be affected by environmental pressures through the genome. For example, if a genetic mutati
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Evolution has allowed organisms to adapt to their environments, sometimes in very specific ways, through changes in thei
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Oil and water are both liquids, but they don't mix well, demonstrating a phenomenon known as liquid-liquid phase separat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 11, 2021
Microbiology
While many people are most familiar with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which is called SARS-CoV-2, there are man
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
A new fossil attributed to the species Homo naledi has been discovered.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
NOV 10, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
With time lapse photography, scientists have now learned more about the symmetry of sea stars. This work could tell us m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 08, 2021
Health & Medicine
A new study finds that over 900 genes are expressed during human pregnancy
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
NOV 08, 2021
Cancer
Elephants possess two qualities that might make one expect they are at high risk of developing cancer; they are large an
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
NOV 05, 2021
Plants & Animals
Meet Mussaurus patagonicus, an adorable five-foot-tall early sauropod or "long neck"
Written By:
Timothy James
NOV 02, 2021
Immunology
Green tea has long been touted as the elixir of youth—high concentrations of chemicals called polyphenols were bel
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
OCT 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Homo bodoensis is a direct ancestor of modern humans who lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, and seen in this
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 25, 2021
Health & Medicine
In response to the growing demand for concentrates, cannabis product manufacturers are exploring new technological advan
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
OCT 25, 2021
Microbiology
Microbes are engaged in a never-ending battle, and they have ways of attacking each other as well as defense mechanisms.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 22, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
To clear a viral infection, the human body has to mount an effective immune response. After detecting the pathogen, immu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2021
Space & Astronomy
One of the most difficult aspects of studying space is that most things, on the astronomical scale, happen very slowly.
...
Written By:
Matthew Lundy
OCT 17, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
A new study has used computational tools to investigate evolution in the human genome that's occurred over the past 50,0
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch