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Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary Biology: is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation.
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OCT 13, 2025Microbiology
Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bact ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 07, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long known that a significant portion of the human genome is made up of the remnants of ancient viruses; ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2025Earth & The Environment
What types of animals first existed on Earth long ago? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the N ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 02, 2025Genetics & Genomics
The domestication of horses is a much more recent even compared to other domesticated species; horses were domesticated ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 04, 2025Genetics & 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 LeitchJUL 22, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Genetic features known as transposons make up a large portion of many mammalian genomes, including humans' ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 02, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Unnecessary sequences called 'introns' are removed from gene transcripts. But where do they come from?Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 25, 2025Genetics & 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 LeitchAPR 01, 2025Genetics & 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 LeitchFEB 24, 2025Genetics & 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 LeitchFEB 05, 2025Microbiology
Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long war ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 03, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiontWritten By: Carmen LeitchDEC 03, 2024Microbiology
Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 02, 2024Earth & The Environment
Uppsala University scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological infl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Organisms are made up of cells, and in each of those cells, a genome encodes the instructions for that organism to grow ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 20, 2024Earth & The Environment
Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster ar ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 16, 2024Microbiology
Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down an ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for bot ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2024Microbiology
All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 01, 2024Microbiology
Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to rev ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 13, 2025
Microbiology
Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process. Bact
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 07, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long known that a significant portion of the human genome is made up of the remnants of ancient viruses;
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What types of animals first existed on Earth long ago? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the N
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 02, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
The domestication of horses is a much more recent even compared to other domesticated species; horses were domesticated
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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
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 02, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Unnecessary sequences called 'introns' are removed from gene transcripts. But where do they come from?
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
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 05, 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long war
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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
DEC 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2024
Microbiology
Compared to other large primates, humans have unusually big brains. Now, scientists have suggested that the large size o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 02, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Uppsala University scientists have analyzed fossilized samples of dinosaur feces to learn more about the ecological infl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Organisms are made up of cells, and in each of those cells, a genome encodes the instructions for that organism to grow
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 20, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Dense groups of marine snails called Littorina saxatilis once thrived on a group of Swedish islands called the Koster ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 16, 2024
Microbiology
Humans began to farm about 11,000 years ago, when temperatures around the planet warmed, and people could settle down an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for bot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2024
Microbiology
All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2024
Microbiology
Microbes have been engaged in an arms race with one another that goes back for millennia. While we have been able to rev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch