Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...

Microbial life on Earth still holds surprises. A recent study overturns our certainties about the emergence of oxygen respiration, revealing an adaptation much earlier than previously estimated. This ...

The domestication of plants and animals has played a key role in the development of human societies. And microbes, too, have been tamed: a study by UNIL, published in the journal Nature Communications ...

What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...

In an unexpected finding, a UCLA-led team has discovered that bacteria are present inside the most common type of kidney ...

While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen attempts to explore using the bacterial spores to ...