B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

The chemical power of oxygen markedly changes a bacteria's genome because a cell's metabolism becomes organized around oxygen ...

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

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Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

It is becoming increasingly evident that genome-sequence changes have an impact on the pathogenic potential and host tropism of many bacterial pathogens 10. With the availability of complete ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

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A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defense themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these systems ...

whereas plasmids will generally re-circularize on uptake and exist independently of the core genome. Let’s consider an example of a bacterial transformation protocol using chemically competent cells ...