A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

The model does not rely on the infinite sites approximation (that a specific mutation newly arises in only one cell at any instant) in contrast to related models. The results become increasingly ...

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 ordinary ...

Mutation dynamics in bacterial populations underpin the generation of genetic diversity that drives adaptation, speciation and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Spontaneous base substitutions ...

A new study tracking thousands of B cells across more than 100 germinal centers in mice reveals how the system consistently ...

Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and a collaborative team of researchers in Japan recently characterized SARS-CoV-2 collected from a persistent ...

Researchers published a new study, “Ongoing chromothripsis underpins osteosarcoma genome complexity and clonal evolution,” in Cell that they say solves the mystery of what drives the genomic ...

The time-development of species communities cannot be understood solely through ecological interactions or environmental ...