The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a ...

The recombination between parental chromosomes, a characteristic of sexual reproduction, plays a crucial role in evolution.

New insights into the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres indicates planet-wide rainfall might take place following hydrogen ...

The neutral theory of molecular evolution (Kimura 1983) explains this pattern by proposing that most mutations do not have an effect on the fitness of an organism. Under this model, fixed DNA ...

Topics include sources of molecular genetic variation, the genetic basis of traits with simple and complex patterns of inheritance, evolutionary mechanisms and patterns, and molecular evolution ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

David Schassler of VanEck offers a comprehensive perspective on market trends, asset allocation and strategy analysis.

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

The Niswander lab investigates novel mouse models of embryonic development with the overarching ... growth factors and signal transduction; mouse molecular genetics; muscular dystrophies and ...

Published in PNAS, the work argues that current models misrepresent the order ... call into question decades of assumptions about molecular evolution. “The genetic code is nearly optimal for ...