Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Nine researchers from Utrecht have received funding in the 25th round of the NWO Open Competition ENW-XS. The grants (of up to 50,000 euros) are intended to enable small-scale, innovative and risky ...

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

Now, researchers have developed a building material made of mycelium—the tubular, branching filaments found in most fungi—and bacteria cells. As detailed in a study published last week in the ...

coli bacteria than has ever been done before. With the aid of the latest generation of sequencing technology, they studied the complete chromosomes and plasmids present in 2000 samples from ...

After the FDA announced a ban on Red Dye No. 3 earlier this year, companies are looking to make the switch to natural dyes. Chew, a food innovation lab in Boston, is showing how natural sources ...

State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB), that is. Scooped from the sulfide-laden sediments of a tidal ...