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The Year in Biology
...molecular changes manifest in evolution and everyday biology. Biologists Meet the AI Revolution In 2024, hardly a week could go by without some big new paper related to Google...
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. Far from...
Insects Conquered a Watery Realm With Just Two New Genes
...what’s needed to provide a complete answer to how phenotypic evolution occurs. “The integrative, interdisciplinary nature of this demonstration is what’s striking here,” said Ehab Abouheif, an evolutionary developmental biologist...
A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
...Other collective organisms such as slime molds must contend with evolutionary pressures both on the whole and on individuals. And in still larger systems like the African savanna, evolution shapes...
Cell by Cell, Scientists Map the Genetic Steps as Eggs Become Animals
...their expression programs over the course of evolution. The conservation of the proteins at the sequence level seems to have no connection to the conservation of their expression in evolution....
Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex
Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity. An overarching theme in the story of evolution, at least over the past half billion years or so,...
Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links
...evolution. As beautiful as the bird’s-eye view of the cell is, this work goes beyond biological voyeurism. This information can tell us about the evolution of the cell and, potentially,...
Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents
...of evolution, are more complex and harder to glean information from than the cosmic microwave background, but according to experts, they will ultimately offer a richer picture of the universe’s...
Solution: ‘The DNA Computer Program’
...understand. Processes like evolutionary algorithms and artificial life have taught us that programs designed by evolution are extremely complicated and sometimes seem to defy logic, but they work. The decompilation...