The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed ... While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution, numerous ...

A well-known example of aneuploidy is found in people ... First laboratory to study the adaptation of cancer cells to extra chromosomes Storchová emphasizes the special nature of their research ...

The team wondered whether these adapted cell states were genetic. Using scRNA-seq and whole-exome sequencing, they observed copy number alterations associated with the states. The researchers found ...

In no case was the ganglion cell's adaptation to contrast eliminated ... to the large spatial averages of the visual scene, for example, when a clear day turns into a hazy one.

Finally, the chances that their child will have two copies of the gene, and therefore sickle cell anemia, is also 25 percent. This situation is a stark example of genetic compromise, or an ...