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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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APR 17, 2016Microbiology
The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. R ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and collaborating institutions have described the first-ever immatur ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)APR 05, 2016Health & Medicine
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As you start across the street, out of the corner of your eye, you spot something moving toward you. Instantly, your bra ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 17, 2016
Microbiology
The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. R
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Since 2010 scientists have known that people of Eurasian origin have inherited anywhere from 1 to 4 percent of their DNA
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
Tardigrades are nearly microscopic animals that can survive the harshest of environments, including outer space.
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 06, 2016
Immunology
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and collaborating institutions have described the first-ever immatur
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
APR 05, 2016
Health & Medicine
In an effort to understand how HIV evolves resistance to drugs, scientists have found that it may be possible to steer t
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 31, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers classify galaxies based on their structure; there are a number of different galaxy classifications out there
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini mission is proving to be quite useful in learning more about the Saturnian system. Cassini has just
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 21, 2016
Videos
Some people shave their public hair, some people trim it, and some people go Duck Dynasty with it, but what's the right
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2016
Videos
Imagine it's dinnertime, and you're at your favorite restaurant waiting for your meal to arrive. Just the aromas of the
...
MAR 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
Researchers have discovered that different parts of a single organ can change in size at different rates in response to
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 11, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — In the past, good science has been used for unethical purposes, like eugeni
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 03, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
For the first time, scientists have turned skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that destroy brain tumors known as
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 01, 2016
Immunology
The first gigantic mimiviruses were discovered in 2007 by a research group of France. They named the virus they found &l
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 28, 2016
Plants & Animals
Researchers from John Hopkins University have recently spent their time studying a very strange type of sea snail that a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc
...
FEB 25, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
In the middle of the 19th century, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which contains his theory of evolu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 25, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Cellular reprogramming has been a hot topic in translational and regenerative medicine ever since it was first described
...
FEB 25, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
More than half of “standard farmed pigs” infected with African Swine Fever die, but their warthog and bushpi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 14, 2016
Microbiology
Cyanobacteria have the unique ability to move towards light, a process called phototaxis. According to microbiologists I
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
FEB 13, 2016
Videos
On appearance alone, the human brain not a uniquely impressive organ. It's about a 3-pound mass of squishy matter decora
...
FEB 09, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have developed a map of genetic differences across the genome of date palms, which produce the Middle East&rs
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 01, 2016
Microbiology
To most of us “virulent” means “aggressive,” or just plain “bad,” but to a microbiol
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
As you start across the street, out of the corner of your eye, you spot something moving toward you. Instantly, your bra
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)