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Understanding How Supernumerary Chromosomes Arise

The majority of chromosomes have existed for millions of years.

5 May 2023

Study Uncovers Cancer-Like Changes in Mitochondrial Disease of Newborns

A study found that a mitochondrial disease of newborns shows cancer-like changes in proliferating cells, causing tissues to age prematurely.

4 May 2023

Researchers Publish a Comprehensive Study of Global COVID-19 Variant Transitions

A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently published the most comprehensive study of global COVID-19 variant transitions, which showed significant diversity in variant spread around the globe related to vaccination rates, number of co-circulating variants and immunity from previous infection.

4 May 2023

Study Advances Understanding of the Deep Evolutionary History of Viruses

Researchers have proposed a new evolutionary model for the origin of a kingdom of viruses called Bamfordvirae, suggesting a billion-years evolutionary arms race between two groups within this kingdom and their hosts.

3 May 2023

Texas A&M Research Provides a Definitive Answer to the Evolutionary Timeline of Mammals

Research led by a team of scientists from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences puts to bed the heated scientific debate regarding the history of mammal diversification as it relates to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

2 May 2023

The Origins of Human Accelerated Regions

Large parts of the human genome were changed over a million years ago due to a random event during egg or sperm formation that resulted in the deletion, duplication, or reversal of sections of DNA. Investigators have demonstrated that those structural variants likely set off a cascade of other fast alterations in human DNA that may underpin unique human traits, particularly the brain.

28 Apr 2023

Understanding the Origins of Human Disease Using the Power of Evolutionary Genomics

Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted over the years to find the genes underlying common human traits, from eye color to intelligence and physical and mental illnesses.

28 Apr 2023

Research Shows How Mammalian Genomes Have Developed Over the Course of Evolution

Why is it that certain mammals have an exceptional sense of smell, some hibernate, and yet others, including humans, are predisposed to disease?

28 Apr 2023

Cross-Resistant Bacteria from Agricultural Animal as First Line of Defense in Human

New research headed by the University of Oxford has revealed that overuse of antimicrobials in livestock production can lead to the evolution of bacteria more resistant to the first line of the human immune response. The findings were published today in eLife. They show that farmed chickens and pigs could possess huge reservoirs of cross-resistant bacteria, which are capable of powering future epidemics.

27 Apr 2023

Novel Mathematical Framework Evaluates the Dynamics of Adaptive Immune Evasion

Recent research published in the journal eLife proposes a theory for how cancer cells might actively adapt to the immune system to become resistant to immunotherapy.

27 Apr 2023

New, Improved Dual Version of Living Yeast Biosensor to Detect All Peptide Variants

Biosensors-;sensors that can detect biological samples-;are powerful tools for understanding the function, composition, and structure of biochemical molecules.

26 Apr 2023

Green Algae in Swedish Lakes Offer New Clues to the Amazing Paths of Evolution

By studying green algae in Swedish lakes, a research team, led by Lund University in Sweden, has succeeded in identifying which environmental conditions promote multicellularity.

26 Apr 2023

CloneTracer Reveals a Differentiation Landscape of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Researchers have developed a new method to distinguish between cancerous and healthy stem cells and progenitor cells from samples of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a disease driven by malignant blood stem cells that have historically been difficult to identify.

25 Apr 2023

Metabolic Network Compatibility Not Likely the Limiting Factor in Prokaryotic Endosymbiosis

"One of the great mysteries of biology," says Eric Libby, former SFI Postdoctoral Fellow, now an associate professor at the Integrated Science Lab (IceLab), Umeå University in Sweden, "is eukaryogenesis, or how eukaryotes arose." Scientists consider this to be a period of major evolutionary transition, critical to our understanding of the history and evolution of life on Earth.

25 Apr 2023

40% of Supermarket Meat Samples Contain Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study.

17 Apr 2023

New Tool can Help Untangle Genetic Factors Associated with Shared Characteristics Among Different Species

Aston University has worked with international partners to develop a software package to help scientists answer key questions about genetic factors associated with shared characteristics among different species.

17 Apr 2023

Chemists Propose New Hypothesis for How the First Sugars Arose on the Earth

Two prominent origin-of-life chemists have published a new hypothesis for how the first sugars-;which were necessary for life to evolve-;arose on the early Earth.

17 Apr 2023

Immune System's B Cells Use Tugging Forces to Pull Antigens Off Other Cells' Surfaces

Most cells evolve slowly, accumulating incremental changes that better suit their environments. Immune cells, because they must adapt rapidly to counter new threats, evolve much more quickly.

17 Apr 2023

Comprehensive Sequencing of the Little Skate Genome

Rutgers geneticists, working with an international team of scientists, have conducted the most comprehensive sequencing yet of the complete DNA sequence of the little skate – which, like its better-known cousin, the stingray, has long been viewed as enigmatic because of its shape.

13 Apr 2023

Microbial Drought Resistance Could Result in Soil Carbon Losses

Soil stores more carbon than plants and the atmosphere combined, and soil microbes are largely responsible for putting it there.

13 Apr 2023

Evolution News and Research

Understanding How Supernumerary Chromosomes Arise

Study Uncovers Cancer-Like Changes in Mitochondrial Disease of Newborns

Researchers Publish a Comprehensive Study of Global COVID-19 Variant Transitions

Study Advances Understanding of the Deep Evolutionary History of Viruses

Texas A&M Research Provides a Definitive Answer to the Evolutionary Timeline of Mammals

The Origins of Human Accelerated Regions

Understanding the Origins of Human Disease Using the Power of Evolutionary Genomics

Research Shows How Mammalian Genomes Have Developed Over the Course of Evolution

Cross-Resistant Bacteria from Agricultural Animal as First Line of Defense in Human

Novel Mathematical Framework Evaluates the Dynamics of Adaptive Immune Evasion

New, Improved Dual Version of Living Yeast Biosensor to Detect All Peptide Variants

Green Algae in Swedish Lakes Offer New Clues to the Amazing Paths of Evolution

CloneTracer Reveals a Differentiation Landscape of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Metabolic Network Compatibility Not Likely the Limiting Factor in Prokaryotic Endosymbiosis

40% of Supermarket Meat Samples Contain Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

New Tool can Help Untangle Genetic Factors Associated with Shared Characteristics Among Different Species

Chemists Propose New Hypothesis for How the First Sugars Arose on the Earth

Immune System's B Cells Use Tugging Forces to Pull Antigens Off Other Cells' Surfaces

Comprehensive Sequencing of the Little Skate Genome

Microbial Drought Resistance Could Result in Soil Carbon Losses

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