Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian ...

A new study shows air can carry DNA from wildlife, allergens, and drugs — all traced using a simple air filter.

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3958, United States Article ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Environmental DNA from the air, captured with simple air filters, can track everything from illegal drugs to the wildlife it was originally designed to study.

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Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

Scientists are probing woolly mammoth and Neanderthal genetic codes for new compounds as today’s drugs lose potency.

This is one of the species that causes center rot in onions, which the lab was in the middle of investigating as part of an ...

One dataset used in the study looked at tree species abundance in the United States. Virginia’s forests, among the nation’s ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analysed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread ...