A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significantly compromising cells' ability to grow. The work, ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

A new AI tool helps identify hidden similarities across distant species, unraveling 700 million years of cell evolution.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor. Researchers at the German Cancer Research ...

Asgard archaea, our closest known microbial relatives, play a key role in current models of the origin of more complex ...

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer-promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor. Researchers at the German Cancer Research ...

“There are many, many examples, both published and unpublished, where people who do protein engineering got this great thing, but then it didn’t work at all when they brought it to the system they ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe encapsulation of chemicals may have been necessary for evolution to gain traction.

Cell types can be organized into related families, but the regulatory mechanisms that define and maintain these families across deep evolutionary time remain unknown. Here, combin ...

KAUST-led team has developed the AI tool Unify to help scientists compare similar cell types across distant species ...