An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

De novo gene evolution describes the process by which entirely new genes originate from previously non-coding DNA rather than from the duplication and divergence of existing genetic material. This ...

Olfactory receptor (OR) genes, representing the largest multigene family in mammalian genomes, have undergone extensive evolutionary modifications characterised by dynamic patterns of gene duplication ...

Evolution of the mouse [Beta] globin complex locus / M.H. Edgell, S.C. Hardies, B. Brown, C. Voliva, A. Hill, S. Phillips, M. Comer, F. Burton, S. Weaver, and C.A ...

The language used in the switches that turn genes on and off has remained the same across millions of years of evolution, according to a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden ...

Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials, leading to 6 FDA approved products using delivery vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV). These ...

From epic poetry to game shows, from Stone Age axes to spaceflight, humans have the most complex cultures of any species on Earth. Since the time of Darwin, scientists have suspected that this culture ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

Vol. 105, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Using and Navigating the Plant Tree of Life (March 2018), pp. 602-613 (12 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Next-generation sequencing facilitates rapid production of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...