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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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