An evaluation of introductory biology syllabi from just under 100 colleges and universities finds the syllabus is often ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...

So it seems birds made the most of the opportunities that became available after these other dominant life forms were wiped out. The genome study is the product of nearly a decade of research ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can ...

Electrical engineers have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes. This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time ...

Marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and brackish waters, which ranges from archaea and bacteria to marine mammals, and includes organisms such as corals that affect the shape of the ...

A study of rare familial genetic mutations linked to early-onset dementia supports the idea that stalled protein processing contributes to Alzheimer’s disease.

Structural biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics ... a vital process for life. Two studies solve a long-standing mystery: how a small protein saves nitrogenase from ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.