Can you teach an old gene new tricks?
Evolution explains how living things change over successive generations, giving rise to diversity. Across the evolutionary history of Earth,…
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Evolution explains how living things change over successive generations, giving rise to diversity. Across the evolutionary history of Earth,…
Have you ever been pre-occupied and taken a bite out of something, only to get a mouthful of plastic wrap or paper lining? Well in the…
The term “Darwin’s finches” was first used in 1936 to describe a group of birds from the Galápagos Islands. One of the key…
A normal pregnancy usually lasts around 40 weeks, but births that occur before 37 weeks are defined as being premature. Premature births are…
A paper authored by Mario Bronzanti, Oliver Rauhut, Jonathas Bittencourt, and Max Langer in September of this year traced the evolution of…
Do you love tuna sushi? Did you know that the number of tuna in the ocean has gone down drastically due to overfishing? The law of supply…
Researchers found a gene that, when it is suppressed, reduces injury to the heart valve during the sleep/wake transition in mice. Who knew…
Since the invention of the microscope and discovery of microbes, their role in everyday life has been, to say the least, contentious. As…
Food allergies are more prevalent than ever. Chances are, you, your friend, family member, or co-worker has a food allergy, or knows someone…
You just came back from a romantic night out at your favorite restaurant. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, the meal tasted a little…