A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have changed the environment in which evolution operates, many scientists are in ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal Science, the research includes the African, Native American, and European ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world’s scientific community has been racing to decipher this “book” written in an alphabet of four letters. The applications of these ...