For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

The future of artificial intelligence might not be as much a story about engineering as a story about evolution.

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have identified novel mutations in bacteria that promote the evolution of high-level antibiotic resistance. The ...

Researchers published a new study, “Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution,” in Cell that they say solves the mystery of what drives the genomic ...

University of Utah scientists have found that genetic and sex differences in hosts can influence how viruses evolve, potentially increasing their virulence. Using H3N2 influenza A in mice, they ...