Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

Remains of some of the 300,000 soldiers who died on the retreat from Moscow reveal two bacterial diseases that probably added ...

Ancient DNA reveals Napoleon’s army was decimated by hidden fevers, not typhus, during the disastrous 1812 Russian invasion.

In the summer of 1812, the French emperor set out across Eastern Europe’s Neman River with over 615,000 Grand Army troops ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

A groundbreaking study reveals why colorectal cancer rates are soaring in adults under 50. Childhood exposure to colibactin ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

In the summer of 1812, the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte led an army about half a million strong to invade Russia. The Russians retreated but burned the countryside as they withdrew, ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

A new bacterium found in Hawaiian seawater shows land microbes can reach the ocean through hidden groundwater flow.