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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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AUG 11, 2025
Space & Astronomy
Could we send a spacecraft to a black hole? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as a team
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 11, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic microbiome, and is const
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 05, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
An interview with Lindy O’Clair, Head of Incucyte® Product Management at Sartorius 3D cell models like spheroi
...
AUG 04, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Food staples are crucial foods that often make up the majority of a population's diet. These can include foods like rice
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 01, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Animals that hibernate are hardy and resilient; they can hunker down and go months without eating or drinking, yet their
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2025
Drug Discovery & Development
One lab technique that has been around since what feels like the dawn of time is Western blotting, and it doesn&r
...
JUL 23, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
New research may have finally shown why sleep is so crucial...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Genetic features known as transposons make up a large portion of many mammalian genomes, including humans' ...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plant fossils were found in the abdomen of a dinosaur called a sauropod, shown in this artistic impression. Image credit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 25, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)1. Since then, the colo
...
Sponsored By:
FluoroFinder
JUN 24, 2025
Microbiology
Many important antibiotics are becoming less effective against bacterial infections, as bacteria continue to evolve, gai
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 02, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Unnecessary sequences called 'introns' are removed from gene transcripts. But where do they come from?
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 26, 2025
Cancer
Today marks the American holiday honoring men and women who have lost their lives while serving in the United States mil
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
MAY 14, 2025
Plants & Animals
A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Oxford and published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolut
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
APR 27, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 25, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
A new study has investigated the genetic history of roses, which are part of the genus Rosa and a member of the Rosaceae
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Researchers have performed an updated analysis of an ancient child that was discovered in 1998 in the Lapedo Valley of P
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 06, 2025
Space & Astronomy
How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 05, 2025
Plants & Animals
A study published in Science on the evolution of molluscan forms and genomes offers a fascinating glimpse into the compl
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
FEB 24, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
A part of the brain called the pallium is responsible for complex functions and cognition, and is one thing that sets hu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 18, 2025
Plants & Animals
A study published in Scienc on humpback whale songs has provided remarkable insights into the nature of nonhuman animal
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
FEB 03, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch