A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
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A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
Researchers design a synthetic bacterium that kills the infectious microbe Pseudomonas aeruginosa, sacrificing itself in the process.
Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
Starving brain cells can stimulate hunger through a common cannibalistic act, possibly explaining why some dieters can’t resist temptation.
Protein interaction networks in Arabidopsis give clues to plant evolution and immunity.
The discovery of a new bird-like fossil challenges longstanding theories about which species of dinosaur gave rise to the avian lineage.