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Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

Phage therapy is reshaping our understanding of how targeted viruses can reset the gut microbiome, offering a precise, ...

Microplastics gather drug resistant bacteria as they move through water, allowing microbes to spread from polluted sites into ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified previously unknown genetic mechanisms that promote antimicrobial resistance ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...