Learning the intricacies of your own genetic profile is a double-edged sword.
Learning the intricacies of your own genetic profile is a double-edged sword.
Senior Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Age 40
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
Wales creates a database of DNA barcodes for all of its native flowering plants, hoping to guide conservation and drug development efforts.
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Some of the interesting stories researchers were discussing at this year’s American Society of Microbiology meeting in San Francisco.
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New research finds that older men have children and grandchildren with longer telomeres, possibly pointing to health benefits of delayed reproduction.
Researchers find a slew of new fungal species inhabiting the human gut, and suggest a link to an inflammatory bowel disease.
The beaches around the Gulf of Mexico harbor different nematodes, protists and fungi now than they did before the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010.