This article explores the transformative potential and challenges of single cell omics in advancing our understanding of ...

When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have ...

A team of European researchers is currently aiming to create simple synthetic life forms from scratch using molecules that ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores.

Over the course of evolution, bacteria have developed numerous strategies to protect themselves ... "This highlights surprising parallels between bacterial and human defense mechanisms." Clinical ...

aureus employs to survive in humans. The study of the evolution and genetic adaptation of bacteria in their natural environment, either during the asymptomatic colonisation of their carriers or in ...

Over the course of evolution, bacteria have developed ... "This highlights surprising parallels between bacterial and human defense mechanisms." This universal survival strategy may explain ...

or phages— viruses that only infect bacteria. Over the course of evolution, bacteria have developed numerous strategies to protect themselves from such dangers. But how do bacteria sense ...