Scott Edwards is an acclaimed evolutionary biologist specialising in molecular evolution in birds. 

While we know many things about E. coli under laboratory conditions, relatively little is known about the ecology of this bacterium in the environment.

Each cell division comes with the risk of mutations that could eventually lead to cancer. How do organisms attain their mature sizes without succumbing to cancer? What happens when large-bodied lineages shrink in size? Can cancer risk constrain body size evolution?

The role of nutrient balance in lifespan extension by dietary restriction in Drosophila, Matthew Piper, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and is crucial to enable host-range expansions and host-jumps

Iteroparous animals often express dramatic variation in life-history traits over the course of a lifetime.

The emergence and implementation of Cas endonuclease technology has undoubtedly taken plant research and biotechnology to a higher level.

Metascience, or metaresearch, is a field of research that has grown out of the replication crisis. Amongst other things, metascience evaluates and monitors open science initiatives and other interventions to improve scientific practices and cultures.

Irrespective of species, plant roots have remarkably similar patterning, and thus, many cell types are considered functionally homologous across species.