Findings suggest that new genes can form by repurposing fragments of ancestral genes while incorporating entirely new coding regions (the protein-coding parts of the DNA). This innovative concept ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Phenotypic plasticity enables plants to adjust their physical traits in response to environmental variations, playing a vital ...

Vaccine adjuvants have evolved significantly since their inception, transitioning from empirical discovery to a more structured approach grounded in rational drug design.

"Rates of evolution can be fantastically fast because of that constant environmental change," Michael Benton, a vertebrate ...

Fossils found in China and elsewhere show the starts and stops of this evolutionary process throughout the Cretaceous in long ...

New research uncovers a surprising genetic mechanism that impacts the development of butterfly wing colors An international ...

Adaptive optics is a branch of optics and photonics that uses light-controlling components to actively correct distortion in an incoming image. These distortions can occur when light from an ...

Pollution from the production of antidepressant medication is altering fish behavior and reproductive traits, highlighting ... for understanding the adaptive capacity of wildlife facing ...