A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in evolutionary biology, from Faculty of 1000
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.
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.
For the first time, researchers have engineered a multicellular organism that incorporates a synthetic amino acid into its proteins.
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.