New therapies could prevent the adjustments in intestinal bacteria that enable them to survive in inflamed regionsNew studies ...

New therapies could prevent the adjustments in intestinal bacteria that enable them to survive in inflamed regions ...

New experimental studies by numerous research groups, including the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) in ...

In addition to the urgent need for new antibiotics, alternative strategies are required to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance. Michaela Wenzel, Associate Professor at Chalmers University of ...

Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...

Daniel Dennett has decided that the mind is less like a computer than he had previously imagined. Instead, the Darwinian philosopher suspects that the brain may be even more Darwinian than he had ...

You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from microscopic bacteria to the blue whale, the biggest animal to ever ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed.

Spices are essential ingredients used in various dishes and are widely consumed worldwide. Typically employed in small amounts to enhance flavor, spices are derived from diverse sources, including the ...

The world’s first joint research program in evolutionary medical genomics has been launched in Barcelona, under the direction ...

While rates of evolution have appeared to accelerate over short time periods, new analysis suggests that statistical noise is ...