When it comes to agriculture and plant breeding, choosing the most competitive plants doesn't necessarily lead to the best yield

Including “non-ideal” components in the designs may be key to functional artificial proteins

Resurrected 500 million-year-old protein shows researchers how chance shaped biological history

The evolutionary path to first proteins may have been paved with relatively easy, small square-dance steps

Researchers believe that by analyzing the fossils using the GC-MS method, it will be easier to find archaea in sedimentary rocks

Recent study shows individual microbes—such as bacteria—found in denser microbial populations mutate much less than microbes in sparser groups

The new computational model may help explain that gap in the evolution of chemistry into biology

The toothless dolphin, which lived about 28-30 million years ago, provides new evidence of the evolution of feeding behavior in whales (which includes dolphins)

Research team finds the answer in ancient sedimentary rocks from central Australia

The ancient networks of the Silk Road opened pathways for genetic exchange that shaped one of the world's most popular fruits: the apple