A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Dating back many millions of years, these ancient fossils found on Puttapa/Beltana stations are said to be some of the ...

Emma Teni extracts venom from Sydney funnel-web spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, crucial for the national antivenom ...

Although a far cry from the estimated 10 billion rabbits that infested Australia a century ago, some 200 million currently inhabit the continent and their numbers are again threatening to explode.