New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a ...

Duplicated genes that appear in every branch of the tree of life can provide us with insight into the evolution that occurred ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and ...

The evolution of new genes is not the only way for a species to change. The loss of genes may also lead to adaptations that help species survive, but this idea has not been well studied. Now, ...

Researchers showed that in C. elegans, the protein MBD-2 regulates genes through repressive histone marks rather than DNA ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is likely ASD’s genetic cause, new research suggests. Though autism can cause ...

Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and ...