A recent study published in Evolutionary Psychology suggests that a neighborhood’s economic and demographic conditions can ...

Synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles and the design process to create biological systems with new and desired functionalities 1. While it is seen by many as a young field that ...

New experimental studies by numerous research groups, including the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) in Plön and Kiel University (CAU), suggest that evolutionary medicine could ...

In evolutionary theory, natural selection 1 describes why some things exist and others do not 2. Darwin’s theory of evolution and its modern synthesis point out how selection among variants in the ...

Evaluating the speed at which viruses spread and transmit across host populations is critical to mitigating disease outbreaks. A study published December 3 in PLOS Biology by Simon Dellicour at the ...

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more A new technique developed by much-hyped ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...

One of the big trends in artificial intelligence in the past year has been the employment of various tricks during inference -- the act of making predictions -- to dramatically improve the accuracy of ...

“Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a frustrated biophysicist, Royal Society fellow and pioneer of the field of systems biology. “They don’t exist. Where will they be? They won’t ...

So let's start with an anecdote about a school district in New York State. In this particular district, the middle school had developed extraordinary renown over the years for developing a communal ...