A sweeping analysis of how metagenomic next-generation sequencing is being used to detect viruses in respiratory samples has revealed both ...

Tidal flats are among the most inhospitable habitats on Earth's surface, places where communities of microorganisms must endure being alternately ...

A common gut bacterium long dismissed as a threat mainly to infants in developing countries may be far more relevant ...

In a development that could reshape how industry manufactures one of the most versatile platform chemicals in the bioeconomy, researchers ...

Every day, laboratories and clinics around the world generate genetic sequences in which a single letter of the DNA code ...

The giant kidney worm, a parasitic nematode that can grow to more than a meter in length and destroys the ...

In a development that promises to reshape how plant scientists assess one of the world's most important cereal crops, researchers ...

Researchers in China have identified two chitinase genes that act as central guardians of walnut leaves against a destructive fungal ...

In the smoke-shrouded provinces of northern Thailand, the annual burning season has long been a public health emergency in slow ...

In a laboratory in southeastern Brazil, caddisfly larvae abandoned their protective silk-and-detritus cases, slowed their movements, and suffered severe damage ...