HOUSTON, Aug. 19 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release:

Multi-institutional Research Could Offer Insights into Cancer Progression, Antibiotic Resistance

By Kelly Schafler - 713-743-1153

From left: University of Houston evolutionary biologists Rebecca Zufall and Ricardo Azevedo will use a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to examine how an organism's reproductive mode alters the speed at which its DNA mutates.

A nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Houston researchers to investigate how mutation rates evolve across species - work that could offer critical insights into cancer progression and antibiotic resistance.

Over the next four yea...