Scientists are uncovering the surprising ways bacteria and archaea differ — and how these differences could be turned into weapons against dangerous infections. From bacteria’s peptidoglycan walls to ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do resemble dark, sediment-covered stones resting in shallow waters.

Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that ...

Recently, a novel procedure, ORF (an acronym for ostensible recognition of folds), was developed to identify protein homologs in genomic databases 1. As an initial test, ORF was used to predict a gene ...