A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a system to control and accelerate the evolution of changes in bacterial genome structure, targeting small "jumping genes," or DNA sequences known ...

Indiscriminate antibiotic usage results in real-time evolution of bacteria that resist treatment. Furthermore, the healthy carrier state provides a safe reservoir for these bacteria which allows ...

The evolution of hyperswarming, pathogenic bacteria might sound like the plot of a horror film, but such bugs really have repeatedly evolved in a lab, and the good news is that they should be less ...

Scientists like Richard Lenski and Paul Turner are tracking the evolution of bacteria and viruses over a matter of weeks, or even days. This week in my “Matter” column for the New York Times ...

The type of genetic exchange and mode of evolution outlined above is common for bacteria in terrestrial habitats like soil and in the oceans. But in the deep sea, bacteria can also be found at ...

Microbes may have played a role in making us, us. A new study shows similar patterns in the evolution of gut bacteria and the primates they live in, suggesting that germs and apes could have ...

Thirty years ago the world's longest running evolution experiment began when scientist Richard Lenski seeded 12 identical flasks with E. coli bacteria. Every subsequent day someone in the lab has ...

"Evolutionary biologists have long thought of evolution as a process that continues indefinitely because the world is constantly changing," says Lenski. But his bacteria live in an unchanging ...

Investigations involving longer evolutionary experiments and different opportunistic bacteria are likely to further expand our view of the forces driving the evolution and virulence of ...

A new jigsaw piece in the evolution of green algae has been identified ... have originally occurred in numerous bacteria. Green algae, too, contain such enzymes, using them for the light-driven ...