Recent research showed that an artificially constructed self-replicating RNA system modeling primitive life at the origin of ...
For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...
A key step in the origin of many pandemics occurs when an animal-borne virus infects humans and then evolves to spread more ...
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In a one-of-a-kind experiment led by UC Berkeley researchers, biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of Arabidopsis (above) in various types of climates — from alpine ...