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As we stand on the precipice of a scientific revolution, researchers are pushing the boundaries of biology by developing ...

Buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface, scientists have uncovered a mysterious group of microbes unlike anything known ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.