A bird swoops toward a bright orange-and-black moth resting on a leaf in the Amazon. It pulls up at the last second. The ...

Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

The study of experimental evolution in Escherichia coli has provided unprecedented insights into the mechanisms of adaptive mutations, elucidating how populations diverge and optimise their fitness ...

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 ...

Mitochondria are known as the body’s “energy factories,” and their function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set of complexes called the oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) system ...

(TP53), widely known as the “guardian of the genome,” is one of the most frequently altered genes in human cancer. While its canonical tumor-suppressive ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on.