An idea first proposed 138 years ago that limbs evolved from gills, which has been widely discredited due to lack of supporting fossil evidence, may prove correct after all

Study traces how a largely unfamiliar pathogen led to a global epidemic

Award is part of $8.7 million effort across eight institutions in United States and Europe

Many commercial strains nearly genetically identical

The vegetarian allele evolved in populations that have eaten a plant-based diet over hundreds of generations

Findings will inform a variety of genetically based mosquito control strategies that focus on creating more males than females

One whole endogenous retrovirus genome–and bits of 17 others–were spotted in a study of 2,500 human genomes

Researchers have discovered that these polarity genes, which do more than create cowlicks, are regulated by a tumor suppressor protein

Berkeley Lab scientists make major advance in understanding a basic process of life

A new method to control the activity of neurons in mice, devised by scientists at Rockefeller University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, uses magnetic forces to remotely control the flow of ions into specifically targeted cells.