Our world is full of microbes, which have found homes in many environments, from extremely hot thermal vents in the ocean to the human gastrointestinal tract. Many of those microbes have become ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

This week, a team of biologists headed by genomics pioneer Craig Venter published a study(Opens in a new window) in Science that should amaze and excite the world ...

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to genome sequencing in the animal kingdom, as a team of researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research recently illustrated when assembling the sequences for ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For big beasts, dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex sure had small genomes. In a study published on Wednesday, scientists estimated the size of the genome -- the genetic ...