A trip through the transcriptome
Exposing the life and work of a visionary and troubled scientist opens a window onto the evolution of altruism.
The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
A new estimate of eukaryotic diversity suggests a total of 8.7 million species. So far, scientists have discovered only 1.2 million of them.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
Fossils discovered in Australian rocks may be the remnants of three and a half billion-year-old microorganisms.
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.