A new bacterium found in Hawaiian seawater shows land microbes can reach the ocean through hidden groundwater flow.

Once an antibody latches on to a pathogen, broadly neutralizing antibodies inactivate it (as their name implies). This is ...

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

Scientists identify 2 previously unsuspected bacteria that potentially contributed to the mass death of soldiers retreating ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Its integration into the China National GeneBank DataBase (CNGBdb) allows users to accurately forecast cell expression levels ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

A study found that daily vitamin D supplements helped slow telomere shortening—the cellular process linked to aging and ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

By shuttling silver and mercury between binding sites in DNA, scientists make the molecule switch conductance levels like a ...