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

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 ...

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

A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.