We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of ...

The process of evolution usually takes thousands, millions or even billions of years. But researchers have found a way to ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

The outbreak is believed to have been linked to Chipotle restaurants. — -- As the E. coli outbreak believed to be linked to West Coast Chipotle restaurants grows, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Directed evolution is usually a laborious process that often takes weeks in which proteins rapidly evolve and develop ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...