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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 25, 2016Microbiology
Researchers have learned more about how Lyme disease invades the body, and will publish their findings September 6 in Ce ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 24, 2016Videos
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It’s long been thought that in bacterial evolution, mutations are transmitted to future generations in a predictab ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 03, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
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Turtles have shells that they can hide inside of when they feel like they’re in danger or when they are feeling an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 29, 2016Health & Medicine
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Humans have two different types of DNA: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The one that usually gets the majority of publici ...JUL 25, 2016Microbiology
A new study published in Science has shown that the bacteria in our guts has been with us a long time, and coevolved alo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 22, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
In a study recently published in Science, researchers have described a cage they compare to the capsule structure that s ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 21, 2016Microbiology
Publishing in eLife, researchers at Stanford University have begun to reveal the extent of the influence viruses have ha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 17, 2016Plants & Animals
There has been a lot of recent controversy over how dinosaurs may have sounded when they once walked the Earth. The comm ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2016Space & Astronomy
It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
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AUG 25, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers have learned more about how Lyme disease invades the body, and will publish their findings September 6 in Ce
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 24, 2016
Videos
White lies, fibs, blatant exaggerations, lies of omission - we've all done it before. And not just once, either. We'll a
...
AUG 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Our Milky Way galaxy is a spiraling disk of dust, stars, and other rubble that has formed together over billions of year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2016
Videos
Prosanta Chakrabarty is an evolutionary biologist and ichthyologist who discovers new species and examines the biology o
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
AUG 17, 2016
Videos
Vibrio cholerae bacteria will fire toxins off when confronted with encroaching neighbors on crab shells. The process see
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2016
Microbiology
Analyzing the adaptability of bacteria, biologist Shelley Copley has announced the results of research in the area at th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
LA JOLLA, CA—August 15, 2015—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have taken a big step towar
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
AUG 15, 2016
Neuroscience
Does size matter? Well, it depends, but in terms of the brain, it’s definitely a factor. A study directed by neuro
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 12, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The production of two cells from one, cell division, is one of the core functions in life. Cells divide many times durin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 11, 2016
Cancer
In 2014 the most common cancer diagnosis was breast cancer, followed by prostate, lung, colon, skin, and brain cancer. B
...
AUG 09, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Earth is the oddball in our Solar System because it supports life. There has, to date, not been any evidence of intellig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Microbiology
It’s long been thought that in bacterial evolution, mutations are transmitted to future generations in a predictab
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to understand the role of so-called junk DNA. Made up of long stretches of non-coding
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
Turtles have shells that they can hide inside of when they feel like they’re in danger or when they are feeling an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 29, 2016
Health & Medicine
A new study of over ten thousand heart surgery patients led to the collection of 17 patient characteristics that scienti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 26, 2016
Videos
Humans have two different types of DNA: nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. The one that usually gets the majority of publici
...
JUL 25, 2016
Microbiology
A new study published in Science has shown that the bacteria in our guts has been with us a long time, and coevolved alo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In a study recently published in Science, researchers have described a cage they compare to the capsule structure that s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 21, 2016
Microbiology
Publishing in eLife, researchers at Stanford University have begun to reveal the extent of the influence viruses have ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
There has been a lot of recent controversy over how dinosaurs may have sounded when they once walked the Earth. The comm
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Intermediate filaments (IFs) are critical parts of the structure of cells. They are essential for both normal tissue str
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2016
Microbiology
In a major achievement for microbiology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (O
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
Lots of reptiles love their protein. They have a constant desire for the stuff to compliment their livestyles, and that&
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard