Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

Investigating Staphylococcus aureus – a leading cause of antibiotic resistance-associated infections and deaths – researchers ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

A new study has revealed the existence of bifunctional diterpene cyclases/synthases (DCSs) in bacteria, offering compelling ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Bacterial genomics can, for example, be used to study bacterial evolution or outbreaks of bacterial infections.

Daniel Dennett has decided that the mind is less like a computer than he had previously imagined. Instead, the Darwinian philosopher suspects that the brain may be even more Darwinian than he had ...

Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to ...

Bacteria are organisms that consist of a single cell without a nucleus and with distinct structural, physiological and evolutionary characteristics. Bacteria form one of the three domains of life ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.