The gene's-eye view theory, while influential to the field, was controversial. Some of its sharpest critics included Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologists in the Department ...

An evolutionary and population biologist at Washington University in St. Louis says that Mayr's theory has been illustrated nicely in recent years in human genetic epidemiology and population ...

A new university spinout company is hoping to use synthetic biology to transform gene therapy manufacture. SynGenSys, from the University of Sheffield, plans to tap into engineering design ...

In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research are committed to bringing life into sharper focus.

'Synthetic biology' is a research field that assigns new functions to organisms by leveraging natural and synthetic genetic regulatory tools.

There's more than one way to silence gene activity, according to a Michigan State University researcher. Downregulating activity is how healthy genes should shift out of their development cycle ...

An evolutionary biologist in China has built a case against the long-reigning 'out of Africa' theory, which suggests modern humans (Homo sapiens) first arose in Africa.

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