Antibiotic resistance poses a growing global health crisis, and researchers are turning to evolutionary biology for solutions ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in health and disease are beginning to trickle in.

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack ...

After collecting water samples from one of these rivers, students will use modern laboratory techniques to isolate bacterial DNA, fragment it into millions of tiny strands, and sequence them. The ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

The complete archive, comprising over 20,000 items, includes Darwin’s records illustrating the development of his ground-breaking theory of evolution and extensive ... of his thought and feature the ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...