From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

A new dataset of genetic information collected from 233 primate species, the largest and most complete of its kind, promises to yield insights into primates’ evolutionary biology and how genetics ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

All modern Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite in humans, are descendants of one initial infection and so are very closely related, with relatively limited genetic differences. A ...

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to be exactly that for Benjamin Wolfe, associate professor of biology, and ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among ...