How accelerating evolution could help corals survive future heatwaves – new study

Scientists and reef managers are calling for ‘assisted evolution’ to help accelerate coral reef adaptation in the face of ...
Newcastle University

Conversation assisted evolution

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Liam Lachs, Dr Adriana Humanes and Dr James Guest, discuss how how accelerating evolution ...
eLife

Distinct allosteric remodeling of HIV-1 Env dynamics on virions by gp41-directed antibodies reveals two modes of neutralization

This manuscript reports an important study in which the authors apply smFRET imaging to probe HIV-1 Env conformational dynamics in the presence of antibodies. Previous implementations of smFRET ...
IFLScience

Natural Selection Shaped Hundreds More Human Genes Than We Thought, Massive Ancient DNA Study Finds

Scientists previously thought only a handful of genes showed signs of selection in recent human evolution, but previous ...