The ability to precisely edit the genomes of bacteria has long been a goal of microbiologists. Such technology would enable ...

Climate change is transforming the Earth’s natural systems at an unprecedented pace, influencing temperature patterns, rainfall distribution, and the ...

A new study finds that bacteria can actively block the transfer of beneficial genes to neighboring cells, using specialized ...

These factors include genetic and age-related blood mutations, smoking and infection by oral bacteria. Published in Cancer Discovery, the findings provide new insight into the earliest biological ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia. By Gina Kolata Napoleon’s army ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

China's Agricultural Ministry is asking farmers to switch to late-autumn crops like sweet potatoes because of the crop damages already seen. Source - USDA Photo by Lance Cheung. Public Domain China's ...

Researchers from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity claim to be the first to demonstrate the use of genome sequencing in tracking and receiving quick insights into bacterial ...

Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing number of new chemicals that have never been seen before by Earth’s creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic ...