Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Learn more about the volcanic island of Nishinoshima and how its frequent eruptions are helping scientists understand how ...

Today, biological organisms are able to make use of phosphates through proteins – molecular machines that regulate all ...

New genus and species of plant discovered, Ovicula biradiata, is called a "woolly devil" because it appears to have tiny ...

Structural reconstruction of thousands of ancient nitrogenases through Earth’s history uncovers architectural constraints that shaped their evolution under global environmental transitions.

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.