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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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SEP 09, 2016Microbiology
Scientists working in collaboration at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have pub ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 02, 2016Plants & Animals
Have you ever wondered how fish in the middle of the open ocean are able to avoid predators despite the lack of a backgr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 01, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have proposed a new theory for the development of complex organisms from a single cell and it’s called ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 20, 2016Videos
Prosanta Chakrabarty is an evolutionary biologist and ichthyologist who discovers new species and examines the biology o ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAUG 16, 2016Microbiology
Analyzing the adaptability of bacteria, biologist Shelley Copley has announced the results of research in the area at th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 15, 2016Genetics & 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 11, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
In new research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists applied a high throughput methodology to study th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 11, 2016Cancer
In 2014 the most common cancer diagnosis was breast cancer, followed by prostate, lung, colon, skin, and brain cancer. B ...AUG 04, 2016Microbiology
It’s long been thought that in bacterial evolution, mutations are transmitted to future generations in a predictab ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 01, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The FaceBase Consortium was established in 2009 to create a publicly available database - facebase.org - to study how fa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 27, 2016Microbiology
Researchers have unveiled details about the last universal common ancestor to all life on Earth, with the acronym LUCA. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 26, 2016Immunology
As scientists identify ways that viruses exploit their host cells to make more copies of themselves, they are also uncov ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)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 16, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
DNA replication likes one direction. Not the boy band, but rather it prefers to replicate in a certain direction over th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 03, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
While the process of copying DNA to make new strands includes a proofreading function to ensure accuracy, the so-called ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 28, 2016Plants & Animals
It’s not every day that you see a beaked whale. These creatures like to swim around in the deeper realms of the oc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 26, 2016Microbiology
Scientists have long searched for the answer to the question of how bacteria decide to cease normal function and form a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 13, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Mitochondria have long been thought to be the normal engine of a eukaryotic cell and one that was essential for the surv ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 03, 2016Microbiology
Scientists first saw the microbiome when doing ribosomal RNA sequencing and getting so much of what many thought was con ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 02, 2016Immunology
Findings Could Guide Development of Treatments for Lassa Fever For the first time, scientists at The Scripps Research In ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)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
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)MAR 03, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have developed a new, less expensive, and faster method to determine the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 27, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc ...
SEP 09, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists working in collaboration at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have pub
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
Have you ever wondered how fish in the middle of the open ocean are able to avoid predators despite the lack of a backgr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have proposed a new theory for the development of complex organisms from a single cell and it’s called
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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 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 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
In new research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists applied a high throughput methodology to study th
...
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 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 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The FaceBase Consortium was established in 2009 to create a publicly available database - facebase.org - to study how fa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 27, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers have unveiled details about the last universal common ancestor to all life on Earth, with the acronym LUCA.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 26, 2016
Immunology
As scientists identify ways that viruses exploit their host cells to make more copies of themselves, they are also uncov
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
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 16, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
DNA replication likes one direction. Not the boy band, but rather it prefers to replicate in a certain direction over th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 03, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
While the process of copying DNA to make new strands includes a proofreading function to ensure accuracy, the so-called
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 28, 2016
Plants & Animals
It’s not every day that you see a beaked whale. These creatures like to swim around in the deeper realms of the oc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 26, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists have long searched for the answer to the question of how bacteria decide to cease normal function and form a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 13, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mitochondria have long been thought to be the normal engine of a eukaryotic cell and one that was essential for the surv
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists first saw the microbiome when doing ribosomal RNA sequencing and getting so much of what many thought was con
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 02, 2016
Immunology
Findings Could Guide Development of Treatments for Lassa Fever For the first time, scientists at The Scripps Research In
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
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)
MAR 03, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have developed a new, less expensive, and faster method to determine the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 27, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Survival of the fittest has a generally positive connotation. After all, this evolutionary principle is the driving forc
...