Research in Mozambique shows tsetse flies in two national parks are genetically isolated, yet accidental movement via livestock transport may help them cross natural barriers and challenge eradication ...

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

To overcome these challenges, the insects have developed a very peculiar behavior: collective assembly. They use their bodies ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. In the United States ...

Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far ...

Lander, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, and approved February 1, 2010 (received for review October 15, 2009) Here, we use a combined computational and experimental strategy to trace ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...