Ultra-processed diets are driving gut bacteria to evolve rapidly at a genetic level. Microbes now switch on DNA fragments to ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Denisovans were an extinct human group identified almost entirely through DNA rather than complete skeletons. First discovered in Siberia, their genetic legacy is still present in populations across ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

Scientists uncover evidence that all life on Earth traces back to a single ancestor, dating back 4.2 billion years, far ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different ...

Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid picture of history through her work and her most recent project was her most controversial to date ...

Drug development in biotechnology takes time. A lot of time. On average, it takes 10 to 15 years to take a medicine from ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...

Scientists are studying Nectophrynoides frogs that give birth to live young. This unique reproductive method helps them ...

Sven Köhnen, Pia Ulbricht, Alina Sturm, Julie Carcaud, Jean-Christophe Sandoz, Thomas Eltz and Martin Beye; The fru gene specifies male cooperative behaviors in honeybee colonies; Nature ...