Ancient retroviruses played a key role in vertebrate brain evolution, researchers suggest
Researchers' report in the journal Cell that ancient viruses could be the origin of myelin – and, by extension, our ...
Tag: evolution
Wall Street without much evolution, at its peaks
Wall Street is moving shortly before the market this Monday, at its peaks while waiting for a new battery of ...
Harnessing human evolution to advance precision medicine
Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, Ph.D., founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen ...
Tracing the evolution of sign languages using computer modeling
An international team of linguistics experts have traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer ...
Scientists identify growth of the brain’s cerebellum as key to the evolution of bird flight
Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons with studies of dinosaur ...
Inner ear of 6-million-year-old ape fossil reveals clues to the evolution of human movement
Humans and our closest living ape relatives exhibit a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion, from walking upright on two ...
Astronomers inspect the evolution of a nearby Type Ia supernova
Using various ground-based telescopes, astronomers conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a nearby Type Ia supernova known as SN 2020nlb. ...
Evolution of the human immune system in the post-omicron era
It has been four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 has not yet been eradicated and new ...
The investigation into dark energy; the origins of color blindness; the evolution of heads
It took the Dark Energy Survey an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant – and it's ...
Higher viral load during HIV infection may shape viral evolution
A new paper in Molecular biology and evolution finds that HIV-positive populations in people with higher viral loads also have ...
