At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

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 ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative team could replicate less than half of regional research findings. How can ...

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their ...

The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...