When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the ...

A new review highlights how human evolution has shaped the presence of pathogenic variations in DNA damage repair (DDR) genes, offering a new perspective on why modern populations face increased ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

A new study identifies vgll3 as a key gene that promotes rapid growth and early reproduction while increasing the risk of aging and cancer later in life. The findings provide rare experimental ...

Scientists have uncovered how butterfly wing patterns form, revealing that a few key genes and gene regulation control ...

About sixty percent of the genomes of human beings and bananas are similar. So does that mean we are bananas? Well, no - only in a figurative sense. The regulation of gene expression is essential to ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer in a new study. They did so by examining the evolution of antifreeze ...

We often hear that mental health problems are “in the genes.” It’s a familiar story: anxiety runs in families, depression is a chemical imbalance, and maybe you inherited a predisposition to feel the ...