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Gene Drives Work in Mice (if They’re Female)

By John Rennie +1 authors
Jordana Cepelewicz
January 23, 2019
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Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.

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Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex

By Jonathan Lambert
January 8, 2019
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Jellyfish didn’t need novel genes to take an evolutionary leap in complexity.

Art for "Biology and Computer Science Explore Algorithmic Evolution"
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Mathematical Simplicity May Drive Evolution’s Speed

By Jordana Cepelewicz
November 29, 2018
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Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.

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Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math

By Thomas Lin
November 21, 2018
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On November 16, 2018, more than 200 readers joined writers and editors from Quanta Magazine for a wide-ranging panel discussion that examined the newest ideas in fundamental physics, biology and mathematics research.

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Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?

By Jonathan Lambert
November 20, 2018
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How does evolution select the fittest “individuals” when they are ecosystems made up of hosts and their microbiomes? Biologist debate the need to revise theories.

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Solution: ‘How Equality and Inequality Shape Birds and Bees’

By Pradeep Mutalik
November 9, 2018
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Puzzle solvers explored how evolution may have used negative and positive control mechanisms to shape the conflicting parental functions of reproduction and child rearing.

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Theorists Debate How ‘Neutral’ Evolution Really Is

By Viviane Callier
November 8, 2018
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For 50 years, evolutionary theory has emphasized the importance of neutral mutations rather than adaptive ones at the level of DNA. Real genomic data challenges that assumption.

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How Equality and Inequality Shape the Birds and the Bees

By Pradeep Mutalik
October 17, 2018
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Two dynamic, seemingly opposing forces likely played an important role in the evolution of reproduction and child rearing in social animals like bees and humans.

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‘Broadband’ Networks of Viruses May Help Bacteria Evolve Faster

By Jonathan Lambert
October 16, 2018
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A newly discovered mechanism may enable viruses to shuttle genes between bacteria 1,000 times as often as was thought — making them a major force in those cells’ evolution.


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