Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by ...

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 ...

Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings. For decades, ...

UC San Diego researchers combined artificial intelligence with molecular biology to unravel how immune cells in the gut ...

A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.