Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncover DNA’s hidden switches that control genes and discover million-year-old microbial DNA in mammoths. (CREDIT: ...

Scientists have uncovered microbial DNA preserved in mammoth remains dating back more than one million years, revealing the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recovered. By sequencing nearly ...

Red arrows indicate the DNA repair pathways that are known to aid bacterial survival as persisters and gamblers in the presence of fluoroquinolones. Blue color arrow indicates downregulation, while ...

Hidden within cancer DNA data, researchers uncovered viruses and bacteria that may influence both diagnosis and survival.

Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of microbial DNA so tiny that it would take 20,000 samples to weigh as much as a ...

Just like humans, mammoths had a robust community of microorganisms living on their skin and inside their bodies. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified some of the individual species ...