How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use ...

The Mexican tetra and other cave‐dwelling teleosts have emerged as models to investigate the genetic basis of adaptation to perpetual darkness and resource limitation. Comparative genomic and ...

Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have identified a mechanism in the gut bacterium ...

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 ...

While a colleague traveled along the East Coast from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico collecting oysters, Northeastern University bioinformatics graduate student Megha Prasad worked away at her computer.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers at the Arc Institute describe the development and advantages of “Evo 2”. Evo 2 is a novel biological foundation model trained on a ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

We’re easing you into Halloween season with an episode about bats. There’s a silent serial killer decimating little brown ...

The results of newly reported preclinical research indicate that a genetic mutation that helps animals including yaks and Tibetan antelopes survive at high altitudes may hold the key to repairing ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...