Evolution of a hyper-mutable locus delivers foresight Through the analysis of more than 500 mutations, the study uncovered ...

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Plant ecologist Associate Professor Andy Leigh's research focuses on how plants withstand heat stress, to develop strategies ...

Juice cleanses are a popular way to 'detox' the body and reset digestion, but doctors have repeatedly warned that this fad is ...

Master of Science degree in Genetic Counseling Master of Science in Genetic Counseling and Master of Arts in Bioethics (dual degree program) The Master of Science degree in Genetic Counseling is ...

“What the phages do is they get into the pore and look for that specific bacteria, and then they poke it and release genetic material into that bacteria and neutralize it,” he said. Neil ...

Huge variation in what a healthy gut microbiota looks like Broadly speaking, healthy people have the same groups of gut bacteria, but they may differ at the species level. The role of different ...

Structural variation is a change in the structure of an organism's genome, such as deletions, duplications and inversions of the genetic sequence. These structural changes to the genome can be ...

By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease as the leading cause of death as more bacteria develop defenses to the drugs designed to combat them. Now ...

By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease as the leading cause of death as more bacteria develop defenses to the drugs designed to combat them. Now ...