Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

Pathogenic Salmonella injects effector proteins into the cells of the gastrointestinal tract to penetrate and multiply within them. The bacteria are usually ingested with contaminated food. They ...