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A new evolutionary analysis suggests that modern blood and immune cells may preserve a 700-million-year legacy inherited from ...

During the Ediacaran, for the first time in our planet’s history, animals started to move. We know this because they left ...

About a billion years ago, Earth started to come into its own. It was past the awkwardness of its younger years full of ...

The study found that the Port Askaig Formation, composed of layers of rock up to 1.1 km thick, was likely laid down between 662 to 720 million years ago during the Sturtian glaciation -- the first of ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced an amazing and potentially controversial new project to test the development of ...

The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

Larson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at RPI and lead corresponding author of the study ...

Explore the power and risks of synthetic biology as humanity learns to write new versions of life's genetic code.

Scientists discover ancient single-celled ancestors still live on in human blood, revealing a 700-million-year evolutionary link hidden inside the immune system. Researchers at Kyoto University traced ...

The 2030 patent cliff may either decimate revenue streams or provide an opportunity for innovation that can transform the biopharmaceutical industry. As it stands today, some 200 biopharmaceuticals ...

Every drop of blood in your body is doing something ancient. It is carrying oxygen, fighting infections, clotting wounds, and ...