Today, as predictive policing, biometric surveillance, and algorithmic profiling silently erode human dignity, we must ...

CSIRO scientists helped develop this insect-resistant cotton variety, using a gene derived from a soil bacteria, Bacillus ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Grant terminations at Harvard have affected research on antibiotic resistance, identifying the earliest precursors of breast cancer and finding cures for ALS.

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Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and nitrite or nitrate to ...

GDA constitutes an important adaptive mechanism in bacteria, and resistance to several ... and describe how they can facilitate adaptive evolution in response to toxic drugs.