A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

New research reveals how human brain evolution may explain autism’s high prevalence, highlighting genetic trade-offs in ...

Researchers discovered that certain human brain cells evolved unusually fast, altering autism-linked gene activity.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be the result of millions of years of evolution. Rapid neuronal evolution in humans is ...

High school textbooks may frame evolution as a thing of the past, but it is very much alive, said Dr. Arkhat Abzhanov, a ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the nanoscale level.

This research underscores how biology and computation are merging. Generative AI — already used to design proteins and ...

Biology class just got a lot more engaging for students at Arizona State University Polytechnic, where students are using ...

Promega Corporation has entered a strategic partnership with Watchmaker Genomics to license a novel engineered reverse transcriptase. Designed for enhanced accuracy and sensitivity in RNA analysis, ...