Self-restrained genes enable evolutionary novelty Changes in the genes that control development can potentially make large contributions to evolution by generating new morphologies in plants and animals. However, because developmental genes frequently influence many different […]
These Genes Come To Life After You Die What happens after we die? This is a question that plagues a lot of people. After all, “we really know nothing about what happens when [we] die,” […]
Scientists uncover a trove of genes that could hold key to how humans evolved Researchers at the Donnelly Centre in Toronto have found that dozens of genes, previously thought to have similar roles across different […]
Microbes in the human body swap genes, even across tissue boundaries: study Bacteria in the human body are sharing genes with one another at a higher rate than is typically seen in nature, and some […]
Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn’t photosynthesize For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis. The peculiar organism is dubbed ‘corallicolid’ […]
Study discovers over 6,000 antibiotic resistance genes in the bacteria that inhabit the human gut A study carried out in collaboration with the University of Birmingham has used an innovative approach to identify thousands of […]