UC Santa Cruz researchers are studying the ways certain genetic elements hide and make copies of themselves, so they can ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers discover that "introners," transposable elements, are responsible for spreading noncoding DNA ...

The ecosystem needs our help and that of our animal friends. Jump in to read about 9 animals that are types of decomposers!

Patriarchy contradicts biological history and does not reflect it.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps the species survive. Some pieces of DNA are more like parasites, along for ...

The rooting of a lipid-based signalling in eukaryotes during early Opisthokonta evolution ... (B) Phylogenetic profiling of PKC showing its distribution among protists (grey), microsporidia (blue), ...