Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

A powerful AI model called Deep Novel Mutation Search (DNMS) predicts virus mutations more accurately and efficiently than ...

Scientists assumed most forms of life before the Great Oxidation Event didn't metabolize oxygen—but recent research suggests ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

Viral genomes are differentiated from other replicons and genetic material, such as viroids or plasmids, through a unique three-part strategy for survival that is common to all viruses. First ...

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A global study of 270,000 plant species reveals how climate, soil, and ancient geography shape where plants grow and live.

Three Husker students under the mentorship of Luwen Zhang, a leading University of Nebraska-Lincoln virologist, have achieved ...

An AI model trained on nearly one million bacterial genomes can predict when and where antibiotic resistance genes are likely ...

"DNMS works by selecting a parent sequence from a phylogenetic tree – basically a family tree of viral strains – and simulating all possible mutations." The study also looked at the relationship ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and ...