Evolutionary Origin News Today

It would be hard to pick a single year out that made the creation of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines possible, but the year 2005 would be in the discussion.

A new paper shows that human TLR3, TLR7, and TLR8 receptors are activated with naturally occurring RNA, but this is eliminated once modified nucleosides such as m5C, m6A, m5U s2U, or pseudouridine are incorporated.

But some defy easy explanation. For biologists, few phenomena are as mysterious as the female orgasm. I would challenge his analogy: whats so obvious about a nose? Nostrils and an olfactory epithelium, sure -- that does have a clear functional role, and we can see signs of selection in the signal transduction apparatus, but why do we have this bony projection with a knob of cartilage on the end? We think wed look weird without it (like Voldemort), but theres a wide range of shapes within our sp...