The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

Michigan Tech's Genomic Sequencing Lab, part of the University's Health Research Institute, plays a leading role in tracking ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.” DNA sequencing has transformed biomedical ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists whose work has fundamentally altered our understanding of the human immune system. Japanese immunologist Shimon ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

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

Conjugation is mediated by a large molecular machinery termed Type IV secretion system (T4SS), embedded within the donor cell ...