Already, it is teaching us how little we know. It may finally explain mysteries such as why humans have a chin – and what we ...

Enzymes known as kinases play a critical role in cell growth, metabolism and signaling in a multitude of organisms across the tree of life—from algae to helminths to mammals. Now, scientists have ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...