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

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory method that speeds up protein mutations to help create novel cancer and neurodegenerative disorder therapies. In a new study, scientists detail a method called ...

Evolutionary ecology examines how evolutionary processes—variation, inheritance and selection—shape the ecological patterns of species and communities, and in turn how ecological interactions ...

The problem of how life evolved on Earth has intrigued the minds of many great scientists for centuries. Now, according to an ...

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 ...

Phylogenetic comparative methods encompass a suite of statistical and computational approaches that leverage evolutionary trees to infer the history and drivers of trait variation across species. By ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

Jellyfish have repeatedly riddled the world of marine biology with its toughest mysteries. The immortal jellyfish might be the biggest one so far.