Evolution

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu)…

Balu Natarajan won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 1985. Shown are his trophy and newspaper clippings detailing his win.…

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to…

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox…

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analysed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that…

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has…

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As…

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A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and…

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the…