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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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MAR 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
An ancient fish fossil has given researchers new insight into how fish fins eventually evolved into human hands.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 22, 2020Plants & Animals
As a general rule of thumb, most of the world’s wild animals keep their instinctual mating practices within their ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 22, 2020Microbiology
Outliers exist everywhere in nature, and it seems they serve an important purpose.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 17, 2020Plants & Animals
Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. Bu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been suggested that life arose from molecules that gradually came together in the right ways to form simple cells ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The genetic material from a sperm and an egg merges to form a new human genome, and now we know more details about the p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Creating recombinant proteins has become much easier over the past few decades. However, those with the skills to do des ...Written By: Jasper CantrellMAR 13, 2020Earth & The Environment
Imagine if we could forecast ecological changes just as we can forecast the weather. That’s just what new research ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 10, 2020Chemistry & Physics
In a recently published study, a group of Czech Republic researchers from the puts together two materials that are unlik ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 06, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Last Friday, February 28, 2020, the world said goodbye to Freeman Dyson, was a British American physicist and mathematic ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 04, 2020Genetics & Genomics
An international team of researchers has analyzed cartilage from a baby duckbilled dinosaur, and they have identified bi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 02, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers engineer mutant ribosomes that can create biopolymers that are not found in nature.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 24, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging tool with a vast array of biomedical applications ranging from the detection of bra ...Written By: Tara FernandesFEB 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
A small new study suggests that some bats might be able to resist a devastating fungal disease called white nose syndrom ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
In 2018 in a place called Belaya Gora in northeastern Siberia, a frozen bird was found in the ground. A sample of DNA wa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 19, 2020Immunology
What do the gut microbiome, antibodies, and rainbow trout have in common? A lot, says researcher J. Oriol Sunyer from th ...Written By: Tara FernandesFEB 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
A group of ancient humans that has never been identified has been revealed not through fossils, but with modern DNA.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 12, 2020Neuroscience
Traditional notions of artificial intelligence (AI) are outdated. Rather than simply being able to understand inventory ...Written By: Annie LennonFEB 10, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 4,000 years ago in a remote area off the Siberian coast, called Wrang ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 07, 2020Genetics & Genomics
As our cells age or divide, errors can accumulate in the genome they carry, which can lead to cancer, and a variety of e ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 02, 2020Earth & The Environment
Research published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that our collective misuse of tropical ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 24, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned that when sperm cells mature, they activate many of their genes, which enables a repair process ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2020Microbiology
Researchers have learned that the bacterium that causes bovine tuberculosis is able to survive and grow inside of amoeba ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Giant squid, which can weigh over 900 kilograms and grow to thirteen meters, are the stuff of legend.Written By: Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
An ancient fish fossil has given researchers new insight into how fish fins eventually evolved into human hands.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2020
Plants & Animals
As a general rule of thumb, most of the world’s wild animals keep their instinctual mating practices within their
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 22, 2020
Microbiology
Outliers exist everywhere in nature, and it seems they serve an important purpose.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 17, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. Bu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been suggested that life arose from molecules that gradually came together in the right ways to form simple cells
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The genetic material from a sperm and an egg merges to form a new human genome, and now we know more details about the p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Creating recombinant proteins has become much easier over the past few decades. However, those with the skills to do des
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
MAR 13, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Imagine if we could forecast ecological changes just as we can forecast the weather. That’s just what new research
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 10, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
In a recently published study, a group of Czech Republic researchers from the puts together two materials that are unlik
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 06, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Last Friday, February 28, 2020, the world said goodbye to Freeman Dyson, was a British American physicist and mathematic
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 04, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
An international team of researchers has analyzed cartilage from a baby duckbilled dinosaur, and they have identified bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 02, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers engineer mutant ribosomes that can create biopolymers that are not found in nature.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging tool with a vast array of biomedical applications ranging from the detection of bra
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
A small new study suggests that some bats might be able to resist a devastating fungal disease called white nose syndrom
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
In 2018 in a place called Belaya Gora in northeastern Siberia, a frozen bird was found in the ground. A sample of DNA wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2020
Immunology
What do the gut microbiome, antibodies, and rainbow trout have in common? A lot, says researcher J. Oriol Sunyer from th
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
A group of ancient humans that has never been identified has been revealed not through fossils, but with modern DNA.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2020
Neuroscience
Traditional notions of artificial intelligence (AI) are outdated. Rather than simply being able to understand inventory
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
FEB 10, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 4,000 years ago in a remote area off the Siberian coast, called Wrang
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
As our cells age or divide, errors can accumulate in the genome they carry, which can lead to cancer, and a variety of e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Research published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that our collective misuse of tropical
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 24, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned that when sperm cells mature, they activate many of their genes, which enables a repair process
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2020
Microbiology
Researchers have learned that the bacterium that causes bovine tuberculosis is able to survive and grow inside of amoeba
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Giant squid, which can weigh over 900 kilograms and grow to thirteen meters, are the stuff of legend.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch