Biologists exploring how economically and ecologically important species in coastal waters, such as shrimp and crabs, would ...

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a ...

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

Studies reveal that the air inside our homes is more polluted than the air outdoors, and a portion of these toxins come from ...

Environments are littered with the DNA of the creatures that inhabit them. Analyzing it could provide a real-time view of how ...

Perhaps fermentation could be compared to long-distance champion Kipchoge Keino, who won a gold medal in both the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. Fermentation, although it requires ...

A groundbreaking data storage technology could preserve an entire human genome in a tiny 5D memory crystal. Developed by ...

More than 33 million people in the U.S. have a serious and potentially life-threatening food allergy, according to Food ...

Scientists at the University of Galway have created APOLLO, the largest-ever digital microbiome collection, with 247,092 ...

To get your fill of them you could take probiotic supplements —but the better, healthier move is to simply eat a wholesome ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...

Each cell of the human body contains two meters of DNA. The whole secret lies in the intricate three-dimensional arrangement that allows DNA strands to be efficiently organized and compacted within ...