New research reveals how octopuses and other cephalopods developed some of the most complex nervous systems in the animal ...

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers say a decrease in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) molecules in joints separated human ...

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

A new review published in the journal *Frontiers in Genetics* identifies transposable elements—often historically dismissed ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown microorganism that has the smallest genome ever found and may be able to ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound ...

Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm says bringing extinct species back can contribute to conservation, healthcare and ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

Polyploidy is a driving force in eukaryotic evolution. Here the authors describe a macroecological-macrogenomic approach to explore how post-polyploidy reshuffling of an ancestral genome in Araliaceae ...

The story of kuru transformed scientific understanding of prion diseases, linking a devastating epidemic among the Fore ...

A comparative genomic study of 12 pig family species reveals lineage-specific immune gene loss, interleukin-1 family ...