The interaction between a common gene variant and gut microbes may trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis, new ...

The human gut microbiome has been shown to impact health in a myriad of ways. The type and abundance of different bacteria ...

A groundbreaking study reveals why colorectal cancer rates are soaring in adults under 50. Childhood exposure to colibactin ...

An ancient killer has become all the more dangerous with time, mutating often to better sidestep medications, researchers ...

MIT gave photosynthesis a boost by evolving rubisco to work faster, raising hopes for higher crop yields and more efficient ...

A genomic neighbor typing method uses nanopore sequencing to predict antibiotic resistance in approximately 10 minutes from ...

To solve the mystery of the Guadeloupian woman’s incompatible blood, scientists turned to cutting-edge genetic analysis.

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Cancer rates are rising among younger people aged under 50. Here’s what we know about the causes – and what the evidence says ...