A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

Adverse selection occurs in health insurance when there is an imbalance of high-risk, sick people to healthy people. The imbalance can happen due to sick people, who require more insurance, using more ...

Victor Wembanyama was almost at a loss for words after the Spurs blew a 29-point third-quarter lead as the Knicks moved one win away from an NBA title. The Spurs big man and NBA Defensive Player of ...

Clonal selection is a process proposed to explain how a single B or T cell that recognizes an antigen that enters the body is selected from the pre-existing cell pool of differing antigen ...

What was revolutionary about the clonal-selection theory as a solution to the specificity-of-antibody problem? N. Av Mitchison. Biology in the 1950s was coming to terms with 'DNA and all that'. We saw ...