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Evolution

Composite microscopy image showing Capsaspora owczarzaki, sea urchin blood cells, tunicate test cells and mouse bone marrow cells, used to illustrate the evolutionary study of blood-cell lineages.
06.07.2026

An ancient immune programme older than animals themselves

Studying Blattella germanica helps us understand how the transition from juvenile to adult is controlled in insects. Source: Maria-Dolors Piulachs / PLOS Genetics.
29.05.2026

How a cockroach helps us understand metamorphosis

19.11.2025

AI tool FANTASIA illuminates the hidden functions of 24 million proteins

18.06.2025

Ancient proteins reveal sex and genetic diversity in 2-million-year-old hominids

16.04.2025

Evolution, a comedy of errors

A fly on a white surface opposite a black background.
31.03.2025

Inhibit and conquer: the passage to adulthood in Drosophila

A white larva with two brown eyes on sand
10.03.2025

The smiling fly who wanted to be a termite

Protein structure
07.02.2025

Protein structure key to evolution and health

27.11.2024

Harnessing evolution and genomics to improve health

04.10.2024

Punctuated evolution: from species to elections, computers, or covid

25.06.2024

The science arriving at the PRBB

14.05.2024

The balancing act between survival and evolution is solved by having one extra copy

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