The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, ...
Nature

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus is renowned for its capacity to acquire and disseminate genetic traits that underpin antibiotic resistance and virulence. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in this species occurs ...
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Cellectis Publishes Nature Communications Article on a Non-Viral Gene Editing Process Enabling Efficient Gene Insertion in Hematopoietic Stem Cells

NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectis (the “Company”) (Euronext Growth: ALCLS – NASDAQ: CLLS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its pioneering gene-editing platform to ...
The Scientist

The Rise of De Novo Genes: From Scratch to Survival

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...
New Scientist

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...