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

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

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

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

Scientists identify 2 previously unsuspected bacteria that potentially contributed to the mass death of soldiers retreating ...

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

Researchers from Durham University, Jagiellonian University (Poland) and the John Innes Centre have achieved a breakthrough in understanding DNA gyrase, a vital bacterial enzyme and key antibiotic ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

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

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...