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

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

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 ...

Neutrophils are the most abundant type of immune cell and serve as the immune system's first responders. One of their key ...

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

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

This is because your gut is home to trillions of bacteria – in fact, bacterial cells in your body outnumber human cells by ...

Artificial human DNA, or synthetic DNA (synDNA), would be made without biological parents by instead using chemicals. SynHG ...

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

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

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.