Tag Archives: evolutionary biology

University of Hamburg Researchers Help Identify Earliest Known Bryozoan Fossils from the Early Cambrian Period

(IN BRIEF) An international research team involving the University of Hamburg has identified Early Cambrian bryozoan fossils for the first time, showing that these colonial animals existed around 520 million years ago. The fossils were discovered in the Xiannüdong Formation … Read the full press release

New EIRAs Platform Predicts Genetic and Non-Genetic Chemotherapy Resistance in Bowel Cancer

(IN BRIEF) Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research and Queen Mary University have created EIRAs, a computational assay that predicts how bowel cancer cells evolve resistance to chemotherapy. By monitoring cell populations and applying evolutionary models, the tool differentiates … Read the full press release