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Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
...Ph.D. in pathology, had always been fascinated by bacteria and evolutionary biology. And something evolutionarily profound was about to happen to bacteria in America. A new vaccine called Prevnar 7...
Quanta Writers and Editors Discuss Trends in Science and Math
...— there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence for evolution itself. There’s no question that evolution itself occurred, but there are questions about specific mechanisms by which it works. And thinking...
Billion-Year-Old Algae and Newer Genes Hint at Land Plants’ Origin
...big mysteries of evolution. Before then, terrestrial land was home only to microbial life. The first green plants to find their way out of the water were not the soaring...
Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?
...happens with age. Evolution didn’t try to make us old. Evolution tried to make us young and healthy. And sometimes that came at a cost. Strogatz (03:56): It’s a fascinating...
Moonlighting Genes Evolve for a Venomous Job
...it’s likely that this mode of evolution could have been underestimated because other studies have rarely compared evolutionary next of kin. “If you look at species that are very, very...
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
...artificial intelligence called neuroevolution, which co-opts the principles of biological evolution to design smarter algorithms. With Picbreeder, each image was the output of a computational system similar to a neural...
Decoding Flu Viruses Before an Outbreak
...humans, Rabadan’s team hopes to identify mechanisms common to different viruses. For example, if two kinds of viruses develop the same genetic change, a phenomenon known as convergent evolution, it...
Early Life in Death Valley
...on land more than a billion years ago. Before he retires, Knauth would like to add microfossils from the cave to the body of evidence that supports his evolutionary model....
A Primordial Nucleus Behind the Elements of Life
...enables the genesis of life, but it also drives the evolution of stars. “The carbon-oxygen-nitrogen cycle is simply crucial for the formation of almost all the other elements, and for...