Shawn W. Cloonan serves as Life Science Lead & General Counsel of McCord Development, Inc., where he oversees all legal aspects of the firm, advises on strategic development projects, and leads McCord ...

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

Scientists suggest Earth's earliest animals reproduced asexually, slowing evolution and delaying the biodiversity boom that ...

The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

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A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

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