Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which often deadly pathogen infections can be ...

In this article, we discuss transformation, bacterial transformation in particular, and how scientists can utilize it to ...

In the 20th century, when a routine infection was treated with a standard antibiotic, recovery was expected. But over time, ...

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...

The trillions of bacteria in our bodies regularly exchange DNA with each other, but the idea that their genes could end up in human DNA has been very controversial. In 2001, the team that sequenced ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. | ...

This kit utilizes a rapid spin column method to purify total DNA from a wide range of bacteriophages cultured in liquid-grown ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...

Researchers have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that could add to the capabilities of the already transformational gene editing and DNA manipulation toolbox. Of the new recruits, one ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell ... It has been determined that prokaryotic DNA replication occurs at a rate of 1,000 nucleotides per second ...

Hajun Kim, Taejoon Kwon, and Joo Hun Kang—from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a novel diagnostic technique that utilizes artificially designed polymers known as peptide ...