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Tale Of Two Snails Reveals Secrets About The Biochemistry Of Evolution
November 8, 2008 — Researchers in Spain are reporting deep new insights into how evolution changes the biochemistry of living things, helping them to adapt to new environments. Their study, based on an analysis of ... > full story -
Being Unique Has Advantages: 'Rareness' Key To Some Insects Being Favored By Evolution
November 6, 2008 — As the saying goes -- blondes have more fun, but in the world of insects it may actually be the rare "redheads" that have the last laugh ... at least in terms of evolution. A new study has discovered ... > full story -
DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes
November 6, 2008 — Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the two lineages. The ... > full story -
Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts For Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species
November 5, 2008 — Why are some species of plants and animals favored by natural selection? And why does natural selection not favor other species similarly? According to a new study, the answer lies in the rate of ... > full story -
Predicting Evolution’s Next Best Move With Simulator
October 31, 2008 — Biologists today are doing what Darwin thought impossible. They are studying the process of evolution not through fossils but directly, as it is happening. Now, by modeling the steps evolution takes ... > full story -
New Cell Division Mechanism Discovered
October 29, 2008 — A novel cell division mechanism has been discovered in a microorganism that thrives in hot acid. The finding may also result in insights into key processes in human cells, and in a better ... > full story -
Genetic-based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests
October 19, 2008 — Evolutionary geneticists reveal that disease genes emerged very early in evolutionary history. They have systematically analyzed the time of emergence for a large number of genes -- genes which can ... > full story -
Scientists Propose Creation Of New Type Of Seed Bank
October 16, 2008 — While an international seed bank in a Norwegian island has been gathering news about its agricultural collection, a group of US scientists has just published an article outlining a different kind of ... > full story -
DNA Could Reveal Your Surname
October 8, 2008 — Researchers have shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. The results of the research have implications in the fields of forensics, genealogy, ... > full story -
Mysterious Snippets Of DNA Withstand Eons Of Evolution
October 7, 2008 — Small stretches of seemingly useless DNA harbor a big secret, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. There's one problem: We don't know what it is. Although individual ... > full story -
Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'
October 6, 2008 — The latest breakthrough in a 120 year-old debate on the evolution of the bird wing was just published. Bird wings only have three fingers, having evolved from remote ancestors that, like humans and ... > full story -
Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago
October 2, 2008 — MicroRNAs, the tiny molecules that fine-tune gene expression, were first discovered in 1993. But it turns out they've been around for a billion years. MicroRNAs and piRNAs, two classes of small RNAs ... > full story
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