In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists have studied a protein, called HP1, which is ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and thrives.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer. This allows bacteria to ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?