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"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

In the largest study of its kind, EMBL scientists reveal that certain microbes can thrive across different ecosystems, contributing to the global ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

Duplicated genes that appear in every branch of the tree of life can provide us with insight into the evolution that occurred ...

A research team has successfully demonstrated the world's first gene-editing treatment for Leber's hereditary optic ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny membrane-bound particles released by cells to transport proteins and other molecules to neighboring cells. Because of this natural delivery ability, EVs have ...