"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncover DNA’s hidden switches that control genes and discover million-year-old microbial DNA in mammoths. (CREDIT: ...

Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...

Scientists have uncovered microbial DNA preserved in mammoth remains dating back more than one million years, revealing the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recovered. By sequencing nearly ...

Red arrows indicate the DNA repair pathways that are known to aid bacterial survival as persisters and gamblers in the presence of fluoroquinolones. Blue color arrow indicates downregulation, while ...