1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....

7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (620+ words) Every heartbeat, every twitch of a fin, and every dividing cell in a fish embryo depends on a molecular machine so ancient that its origins trace back billions of years. Oxidative phosphorylation, or OXPHOS, is the process by which cells…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (271+ words) Do not mistake glaciers for mere frozen lakes. They are time capsules holding Earth’s history. Snow that fell thousands of years ago compacts into ice; in doing so, it traps whatever was suspended in the atmosphere at the time: dust,…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (180+ words) A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this biological phenomenon. They focused on PoXeR, a protein from a deep-sea bacterium. Using a custom-built apparatus, they subjected the protein…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1630+ words) Nature Reviews Genetics (2026) Cite this article Irion, U. & Nusslein-Volhard, C. Developmental genetics with model organisms. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2122148119 (2022). Liberali, P. & Schier, A. F. The evolution of developmental biology through conceptual and technological revolutions. Cell 187, 3461–3495 (2024). Hilgers, L. & Schwarzer, J. The untapped potential of medaka…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (510+ words) Researchers uncover the molecular strategy that enables PoXeR, a light-driven protein found in deep-sea microorganisms, to adapt to extreme pressure A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (185+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research However, assessing the death of a particular plankton population out of a community consisting of hundreds of coexisting species poses a complex challenge. A team of researchers at Kyoto University addressed this by focusing…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (599+ words) Teeth from two skeletons on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi push back the origin of habitual drug use to 25,000 years ago — long before agriculture, and well before the world's oldest known beer. These hunter-gatherers weren't chewing anything. They were sucking…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (514+ words) Allison Finazzo| September 9, 2026 The average human takes thousands of steps every day, and for most, those steps follow the same pattern: hitting the heel of the foot and then rolling through the toes. But why do humans walk the way…...