Groundbreaking New Tree of Life Sheds Light on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
The largest-ever tree of life for flowering plants has been constructed by sequencing the DNA of more than 9,500 species, charting the evolutionary and genetic…
The largest-ever tree of life for flowering plants has been constructed by sequencing the DNA of more than 9,500 species, charting the evolutionary and genetic…
Researchers at USC have advanced kidney research by developing a new method to cultivate nephron progenitor cells from human stem cells. This method simplifies the…
A new bee species, Hoplitis onosmaevae, discovered in the French Alps and parts of Turkey and Iraq, exhibits unique ecological adaptations and faces conservation challenges…
SpatialData is a freely accessible tool to unify and integrate data from different omics technologies accounting for spatial information, which can provide holistic insights into…
MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain. To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers…
This uncommon process is more frequently observed in neurodegenerative diseases and could offer insights into disease mechanisms. According to a new study published in PLOS…
Gene duplication events hundreds of millions of years ago contributed to evolutionary innovations such as insect flight, octopus camouflage, and human cognition. 700 million years…
Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is usable for life. Plants…
A unique partnership at Salk leverages the deep learning software known as SLEAP to study plant characteristics, speeding up the development of plants that can…
A crucial gene has been identified that clarifies the repeated emergence of gliding capabilities throughout the evolution of marsupials. People say “When pigs fly” to…
New study reveals that ion gradients across cell membranes create a network for swift cellular decision-making, separate from DNA. Cells constantly navigate a dynamic environment,…
A new, unusual giant virus has been discovered at a wastewater treatment plant near Vienna. The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human…
Scientists have constructed a groundbreaking tree of life using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code. A recent study published in the journal Nature by an…
Researchers at Cambridge University propose that essential molecules for life’s development might have originated from a process called graphitization. If confirmed through laboratory experiments, this…
Researchers at Columbia University have engineered mice with part-rat, part-mouse brains that allow them to smell as rats do. This breakthrough demonstrates the brain’s capacity…
Are you a sports enthusiast or a homebody? Punctual or perpetually tardy? The animal kingdom also exhibits a variety of personalities, each with distinct behaviors…
A global team of researchers has constructed the most comprehensive and extensive bird family tree to date, detailing the evolutionary connections among 363 bird species…
A new project unites world-leading experts in quantum computing and genomics to develop new methods and algorithms to process biological data. Researchers aim to harness…