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, ...

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

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

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 ...

Embedded in the teeth of long-dead soldiers, scientists found fragments of microbial DNA from Salmonella enterica, which is ...

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

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

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

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