You say tomato, these scientists say evolutionary mystery
Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found evidence for evolutionary "syndromes" -- sets of traits that occur together -- that help to...
Pioneering research sheds surprising new light on evolution of plant kingdom
A new study has uncovered intriguing insights into the evolution of plant biology, effectively rewriting the history of how they evolved over the past...
Study illuminates mechanism that annotates genetic information passed from fathers to offspring
Van Andel Institute scientists and collaborators have identified a key part of a mechanism that annotates genetic information before it is passed from fathers...
Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
No, oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of...
Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other...
‘Lava lamp’ vesicles show how cells could self-organize
The inside of a living cell is crowded with large, complex molecules. New research on how these molecules could spontaneously organize themselves could further...
