Developmental biology has come of age / Donald D. Brown -- Expression and developmental regulation of the maize Spm transposable element / J.A. Banks, P. Masson and N.V. Fedoroff -- Chicken antibody ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

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 ...

In 1859, Darwin imagined evolution as a slow, gradual progress, with species accumulating small changes over time. But even he was surprised to find the fossil record offered no missing links: the ...

A comparative genome study of earthworms and their marine relatives led by the IBE with involvement of the UAB shows that marine worms shattered their genome and rebuilt it in a radically different ...

Researchers published a new study, “Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution,” in Cell that they say solves the mystery of what drives the genomic ...

A total of 280 million humans suffer from depression. Depression is expected to be the leading cause of disease burden in high-income countries by 2030, according to the World Health Organization. Why ...

Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such mechanism is polyploidy, where organisms carry extra copies of their genomes.