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 ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Vaccinating birds against bird flu reduces the spread of the disease, but may have unintended consequences. This is 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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Many people hold the view that evolution in humans has come to a halt. But while modern medicine and technologies have ...

For decades, the standard explanation for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis has rested on two pillars: inherited ...

Finally, this thesis demonstrates that inherited predisposition, such as germline mutations in the TP53 gene, plays an important role in how treatment influences the evolution of second cancers. These ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...