Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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