Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

As language models learn to interpret words in a sentence, protein language models learn how amino acids work together within a protein.

Scientists compared genomes from 154 animal species and found that land animals share genetic tricks for surviving outside ...

When scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen set out to study how traits pass from one generation to ...

ANN ARBOR—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 ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...