A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

To map the differences in virulence and disease-causing ability between the various subspecies of salmonella, for example, researchers need to sequence the DNA of the bacterial cells on the ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Liquid biopsies are tests that detect signs of cancer through a simple blood draw. Unlike traditional biopsies, which require ...

Cancer rates are rising among younger people aged under 50. Here’s what we know about the causes – and what the evidence says ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Common bacteria can turn plastic waste into the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, researchers have discovered.

Scientists have created a near-copy of the long-extinct dire wolf. Using advanced CRISPR gene editing tech, it now looks ...