"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle - that survival requires change - was mastered ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Evolution stands as one of the most robust theories in modern science, yet it remains shrouded in myths and misconceptions ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This ...

This new research indicates that targeting of methylation on the adenine base in unicellular organisms could be a way in ...

DNA replication is the biological process by which an exact copy of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule is created and it is the basis for biological inheritance. Each of the two strands of the DNA ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...