The human body is a key subject of research by scientists worldwide. A biomedical engineering research team led by Professor ...

Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to sexual reproduction, nature took a system by which parent cells reproduced simply by dividing (asexual reproduction ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the earliest cells that evolved the ability to capture light energy and use it to produce energy-rich molecules. When these ...

A new study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

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While 80% of the human genome—the complete set of DNA in our cells ... which can afford risky new genes that drive faster ...