Researchers have discovered giant DNA structures in oral bacteria, and data hint they could influence the function of your ...

Whether we're talking about animals or humans, gut microbes are essential for health, metabolism and protecting against infection. While captivity is known to alter the gut microbiota of wildlife, the ...

Captive life does more than change routines for bears and pandas. It also changes the microscopic communities living in their ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

A collaboration between researchers in Santa Cruz and Puebla, Mexico, is working to eliminate the bacterial genes driving ...

Two scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic 'scissors' that can rewrite the code of life, contributing to new cancer therapies and holding out the prospect ...

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...

Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing ...

Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...