Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the geological record, which thankful palaeontologists can study many millions of years ...

Scientists investigating an alarming rise in bowel cancer in young adults have identified the bacterial toxin colibactin as a ...

The chemical power of oxygen markedly changes a bacteria's genome because a cell's metabolism becomes organized around oxygen use, and so there are many clues in the data. We then applied our ...

A revised timeline of bacterial evolution revealed that some ancient aerobic bacteria existed before oxygen became common in ...

A long search beyond the realm of microbes N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is a form of immunity in bacteria, camouflaging their genome from enzymes that degrade foreign sequences by adding a methyl chemical ...

One Genome’ mission, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC) are ...

Much of this defence is encoded in the part of the bacteria's genome that can easily be transferred between bacteria, the so-called mobilome. Such a transfer can mean that otherwise harmless ...

Much of this defense is encoded in the part of the bacteria's genome that can easily be transferred between bacteria, the so-called mobilome. Such a transfer can mean that otherwise harmless ...

Colon cancer cases have been increasing among younger adults, and now researchers think they've identified a potential ...