Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a groundbreaking study, researcher Kostas Konstantinidis has reshaped our understanding of microbial life, challenging the long ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

A new study shows that protein sequences associated with microbial communities in the human gut have uniquely low stoichiometric water content and undergo counterintuitive chemical shifts toward ...

Using third-generation metagenomics, researchers from the Department of Plant Production and Microbiology at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) have uncovered the genomic basis behind the ...

In this seminar, Dr. Mason will cover new discoveries in RNA-sequencing (metatranscriptomics) and DNA-sequencing (metagenomics) across dozens of cities on Earth as part of the MetaSUB Consortium, ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Mutation and DNA repair: the consequences of error and mechanisms for remaining the same / John R. Battista & Ashlee M. Earl -- RecA-dependent mechanisms for the ...

An evolutionary survey across mammals found the appendix arose independently many times, clarifying why this small intestinal pouch persists while remaining modest in modern human health. The report ...