The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

When your hair starts to gray, it’s easy to blame stress, age, or bad genes. But a new study from Japan suggests that those fading pigments may also be a biological shield. New research suggests that ...

The findings of a new academic paper suggest that warming winters are causing damage to the DNA of some lizards.

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

Scientists found that childhood BK virus infections may cause DNA damage in the urinary tract, potentially leading to bladder ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Speaking to Gulf News on the sidelines of the Forensic Evidence Forum for University Students, Major General Dr Ahmed Thani ...

Walk along the banks of Issaquah Creek in Washington state during the autumn, and you can hear the river before you see it.

A group of researchers has analyzed 1,240 wastewater samples from 351 cities in 111 different countries and found that ...

Scientists have shown that salmon runs can be detected from the riverbank by capturing tiny fragments of DNA in the air.

During the annual salmon run last fall, University of Washington researchers pulled salmon DNA out of thin air and used it to ...

Researchers have analyzed a sample of DNA believed to belong to Adolf Hitler, which they say reveals the dictator of Nazi Germany had a genetic marker for a rare disorder that can delay puberty, ...