Wednesday, September 20, 2017

UChicago scientists create alternate evolutionary histories in a test tube

09/20/2017 12:13 PM EDT

a student holds a vial of yeast cells

Scientists at the University of Chicago studied a massive set of genetic variants of an ancient protein, discovering a myriad of other ways that evolution could have turned out and revealing a central role for chance in evolutionary history.


Full story at https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/09/13/scientists-create-alternate-evolutionary-histories-test-tube

Source
University of Chicago Medical Center


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