The viruses in question are bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria – they can’t infect humans, or any other animals for ...

This year, Littleford-Colquhoun joined researchers from Yellowstone National Park and Brown’s Genomic Opportunities Lab on a ...

Anthropologist Carla Handley is sitting cross-legged in a mud-walled house in a Kenyan village called Merti. She's meeting with a man dressed in a flowing blue robe and a woven cap of red and white.

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...