Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...

In 1985, a biochemistry scientist was murdered ... “Jeffreys applied for a patent for ‘DNA fingerprinting’ and published an ...

New research from Tulane University has identified a unique genetic signature in bacteria that can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance, a finding that can help quickly ...

Kuch and his colleagues collected 194 reptile DNA samples from Nepalese snakebite victims, 21 of whom brought in the dead snake that had bitten them. In all 21 of those cases, Kuch’s DNA test ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization ...

scientists have discovered that our cells leave behind telltale “fingerprints” that could blow the cover on cancer’s stealthy operation. The breakthrough comes not from DNA, as you might ...