Conrad Waddington (1905–1975) coined the term “epigenetics” and defined it as “the branch of biology which studies ... Epigenetic regulation mediates adaptation to the environment by ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

but the viral adaptation in humans remained unknown until now. Paul Sharp and colleagues from the University of Nottingham Queens Medical Centre in England compared full-length genome sequences of ...