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

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

CRISPR-based tools can’t easily access the DNA in these organelles, but researchers are finding other ways in.

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

However, recent microbial analysis conducted on the remains of Grand Army soldiers indicates at least two other pathogens ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

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

Scientists have found evidence of multiple infectious diseases that may have played key roles in the army’s catastrophic ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.