A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe ...

Proteins are the tiny machines that keep our cells running, and how long they last in the cell often determines how well they ...

New study identifies 'mechanotypes' as the physical links between genes and body shapes, explaining and predicting how ...

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person's genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common conditions ...

Humans really are everywhere. More than any other vertebrate species, we have managed to quickly spread across the planet and ...

The first vaccines a two-month-old child gets in England offer protection against three species of virus and ...

What has long been interpreted as permanent and irreversible vascular damage may not be exclusively so. In people with Down syndrome—one of the most robust populations for studying Alzheimer's disease ...