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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — How fast does evolution occur? In certain bacteria, it can occur almost instantaneously, a University at Buffalo molecular biologist has discovered. Mark R. O’Brian, PhD, chair and ...

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 ...

Researchers have shown that genes can sweep through populations, indicating that the process of evolution in bacteria is very similar to that of sexual eukaryotes. Bacteria are the most populous ...

There has been evidence that there is a strong correlation between the shape of bacteria and the nature of their movement. New research, however, calls that theory into question. Findings published in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...