A newly discovered fire amoeba survives temperatures up to 63°C, challenging biological limits and reshaping understanding of ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the ...

Molecular ecology is the use of molecular genetic tools to study ecological questions. Techniques such as microarrays and DNA markers are used to study the interactions and diversity of natural ...