Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.

This ‘NOVA’ presentation delves into the development of brains—those of both humans and some of our intelligent fellow ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Example of a spatial configuration of a 2D expanding and evolving colony of cells, a typical simulation representing an example with 3 mutations. The individual graphs represent different snapshots in ...

In cells, protein-coding genes are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules when they are active, and mRNA can be translated into proteins. While protein start out as strings of amino acids, ...

A molecular biologist may have found a new 'rule of biology.' The rule challenges long-held notions that most living organisms prefer stability over instability because stability requires less energy ...

Instead of focusing on the individual genes and their effects, biologists and biochemists have created an arsenal of ...

A new platform combines rational protein design with continuous evolution to discover functional molecules more efficiently. In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor. Researchers at the German Cancer Research ...

Evolutionary neurobiologist Max Farnworth has joined Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from Bristol to lead a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group investigating how developmental programs shape the ...

In a study published in Developmental Cell, a team led by Prof. Robert K. Naumann from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and researchers from BGI ...