bacterial genome

Stone-Age ‘Chewing Gum’ Reveals Human DNA

Two researchers working with the plague in Philippines, 1912. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Study of Human History Through the Lives of Disease-Causing Bacteria

Surface oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Credit: Andreas Teske, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Can We Harness Bacteria to Help Clean Up Future Oil Spills?