In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

MPN-BP transformation is driven by sequential mutations disrupting genomic stability, with TP53 mutations being strong predictors of progression. TP53 mutations confer a selective growth advantage, ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

How is skeletal evolution studied? Morphological alterations that contribute to human skeletal structure have been extensively studied in paleoanthropology. Aside from standing height, it has been ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable genetic phenomenon in lycophytes, which are similar to ferns and among the oldest land plants. Their study reveals that these plants ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...