Father. Mother. Cosmos…
It was long thought that during an embryo’s first cell division, one spindle is responsible for segregating the embryo’s chromosomes …
Tag Archives: biology
Deadly life…
A once-maligned genetic parasite may actually be essential for survival. Mouse embryos need that genetic freeloader — a type of …
Instability… Randomness… Out of design…
A study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Applied Physics …
Mutations that lead to cancer: A major argument against evolution?
A research group has discovered a novel cancer-driving mutation in the vast non-coding regions of the human cancer genome, also …
Giant viruses. Evolution. New genes.
Three new members have been added to the Pandoravirus family. Researchers offer an explanation to their puzzling giant genomes with …