Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you've never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply ...

A 5,000-year-old microbe from a Romanian ice cave resists modern antibiotics while also showing promise for new treatments.

More than 100 researchers call for safeguards on high-risk biological datasets to prevent AI misuse, which could create ...

Scientists have isolated a bacterial strain about 5,000 years old from a layer of ice in the Scarisoara cave in Romania. The study showed that the ancient bacterium is Psychrobacter SC65A.3 It is ...

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Whether it’s the ocean’s deepest hydrothermal vents or tall mountain peaks, bacteria is likely surviving and thriving. Ice caves can host a wide variety of microorganisms and offer biologists a bevy ...

Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, scientists have identified subtle genetic mutation clusters in the ...