The study outlines a new scenario for understanding how genome regulation and chromatin organization influence the evolution of animal body plans. The conservation of genome regulatory elements over ...

Why molecular biology needs palaeontology / S. Conway Morris -- Can the Cambrian explosion be inferred through molecular phylogeny? / H. Philippe, A. Chenuil, A. Adoutte -- Protein families in the ...

Cell division is fundamental to life, enabling growth, reproduction, and survival across all organisms, from single-celled bacteria to complex multicellular animals. While animals and fungi share a ...

The meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods that roamed the ancient Earth ranged in size from the bus-sized T. rex to the smaller, dog-sized Velociraptor. Scientists puzzling over how such wildly ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Ironically, one great unsolved problem in Darwin's master work, On the Origin of Species, was just that: How and why do species originate? Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming ...

Despite major advances in targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and combination regimens, therapy resistance remains a central barrier to durable cancer ...

The CRISPR-Cas gene-editing system has long been the focus of research as a promising tool in genome editing. However, the ...