On Jan. 4, 2023, an international research group announced it had for the first time reconstructed ancestors dating…
On Oct. 3, 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to was awarded to Svante…
he Evolution of DNA is an Illustration with the very small, requiring magnification, to the very large. Cast…
On Feb. 24, 2022, researchers from the University of Oxford have used data from UK Biobank participants to…
On Jan. 25. 2022, a report published in PNAS provided strong evidence of extensive SARS-CoV-2 infection of white-tailed…
On Aug. 27, 2021, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space station astronauts successfully demonstrated DNA repair in…
On Jan. 18, 2021, researchers in Konstanz, Wurzburg, Hamburg and Vienna, led by evolutionary biologist Professor Axel Meyer…
On Dec. 16, 2020, Pacific Biosciences announced initial findings from the companyﾒs research collaboration with Labcorp that was…
On Nov. 19, 2020, University of Oxford researchers announced that research into the HIV-1 virus had shed light…
On Nov. 11, 2020, An international team of researchers with an effort called the Zoonomia Project announced that…
On Oct. 7, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded to Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer…
On Aug. 6, 2020, the world’s first successfully cloned endangered Przewalski’s horse was born. Revive & Restore, San…
On Jun. 29, 2020, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers announced they had discovered that Mediterranean populations may…
On Apr. 28, 2020, researchers at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have…
On Apr. 8, 2020, TGen, an affiliate of City of Hope, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern…
On Mar. 18, 2020, Laura van Holstein and and Robert A. Foley published “Terrestrial habitats decouple the relationship…
On Mar. 17, 2020, scientists reported the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China,…
On Oct. 21, 2019, Elizabeth Derryberry, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee (UT),…
On Jan. 24, 2019, scientists at deCODE genetics in Iceland, a subsidiary of Amgen, published the first genetic…
On Nov. 1, 2018, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) was launched, a global effort to sequence the genetic…
On Oct. 3, 2018, the Nobel Foundation announced that Frances H. Arnold had won a share of the…
On May 31, 2018, deCODE genetics published new findings about the founding of the Icelandic population, and its…
On Jan. 19, 2018, Yale evolutionary geneticist Gunter Wagner received the 2018 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the…
On Mar. 2, 2017, scientists discovered the oldest evidence of life on Earth in fossilized microorganisms that are…
On Oct. 6, 2016, Washington University School of Medicine researchers announced they had sequenced the genome of the…
On Oct. 8, 2015, a research team reported the first ancient human genome sequence from Africa. The genome…
On Aug. 12, 2015, the Cephalopod Sequencing Consortium announced the first-ever sequencing of the entire octopus genome. Researchers…
On Jun. 18, 2015, a study, “The Ancestry and Affiliations of Kennewick Man” in the journal Nature, based…
On Feb. 11, 2015, researchers announced they had sequenced the genomes of all 15 species of Darwin’s finches,…
On Aug. 5, 2014, a team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine…