A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an ...

A deadly hospital superbug has evolved into a global force by weaponizing a genetic tool to wipe out its microbial ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of South Florida has identified viruses associated with Karenia brevis, the ...

Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...

"Skipping meals can cause your body to go into a starvation mode, which slows down your metabolism, leading to weight gain ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

Death is inevitable for almost all organisms, but avoiding a sticky end is easier for some that happen to be insanely hard to kill.

Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

It remains the case that it is not illegal to ship DNA fragments that could be strung together to recreate an entire virus ...