Cancers are populations of cells that are heterogeneous across space and through time. This diversity is currently a major clinical issue, limiting the efficiency of most cancer treatments as there is ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

A random mutation in a gene can alter its function and bring about a new characteristic that can pass down for many generations, but this may not be the only way that organisms can inherit a trait.

Bivalve mollusks display one of the most intriguing exceptions to strict maternal inheritance of mitochondria in the animal kingdom. In many bivalves, a system known as doubly uniparental inheritance ...