Researchers from the University of Birmingham's Bladder Cancer Research Center have used a new method to detect chemical ...

The giant DNA loops were discovered through a careful study of saliva samples from 56 volunteers, with further tests ...

While scientists are amassing a fair amount of data regarding our gut microbiomes, the oral microbiome is a bit of a new ...

But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, which may influence oral health, immunity, and cancer risk. Researchers at t ...

Scientists in Tokyo have uncovered “Inocles,” massive strands of extrachromosomal DNA hidden inside bacteria in human mouths.

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that ...

If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen ...

Taking nicotinamide—a vitamin B3 derivative sold as an over-the-counter supplement—may help prevent skin cancer. This is the claim of scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center who found ...

While our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is far from complete, the latest therapies, and others in more than 100 ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

If you’re wondering how the high court’s lawless sausage got made, we must turn to an obscure line from a long-forgotten 1977 ...