Antibiotic resistance poses a growing global health crisis, and researchers are turning to evolutionary biology for solutions ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in health and disease are beginning to trickle in.

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

After collecting water samples from one of these rivers, students will use modern laboratory techniques to isolate bacterial DNA, fragment it into millions of tiny strands, and sequence them. The ...

The complete archive, comprising over 20,000 items, includes Darwin’s records illustrating the development of his ground-breaking theory of evolution and extensive ... of his thought and feature the ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

We introduce a novel methodology, namely binary tree population structure-based differential evolution (BTDE), to mitigate these issues. BTDE introduces a binary tree population structure comprising ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...