Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Ancient snakes once possessed four limbs, but evolution dramatically reshaped them. A genetic 'switch' called the ZRS ...

An international, multi-university research team, including scientists from Columbus State University, has unearthed a ...

Research by Assistant Professor Jacob S. Suissa at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is revealing complexity in how ...

Ohio’s only bee survey will continue after Ohio State received its annual grant funds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has granted $1.3 million to be used to continue research at Ohio State, Mark ...

A need for a time scale -- First principles -- Attemps at division -- Darwin's contribution: organic evolution through natural selection -- A maelstrom of opinions -- Growth and development of the ...

Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution.

A new platform combines rational protein design with continuous evolution to discover functional molecules more efficiently. In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or ...