Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

My projects are interdisciplinary: they involve the distinct disciplines of comparative genomics/transcriptomics, biochemistry, molecular biology, population genetics, experimental evolution and ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a unique genetic mechanism that provides cells ...

New research adds to our understanding of the function of the human genome. An international team of researchers has made ...

Why has the hereditary trait in which the red blood cells are sickle-shaped persisted for so many generations? The surprising answer is that under some conditions it is actually beneficial ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

Meanwhile, the mode of mitosis appears to be intricately connected to the organism's life cycle, which opens up new perspectives on the evolution of cell division mechanisms in eukaryotes.

Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to have offspring with this same adaptation. Over many years this leads to the formation of new species ...