Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and ...

Lines of bacterial genome sequences are made to evolve independently by introducing high-activity insertion sequences, each simulating decades of evolution in the wild in just weeks.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread ...

For prokaryotes, evolution can take place through horizontal gene transfer (HGT for short), where genetic information is directly shared between bacteria. This process allows individual organisms, and ...

The arms race between a virus and the bacteria it attacks has helped scientists better understand one of the mysteries of evolution: How new traits evolve.

Cosmic evolution Five species of bacteria were collected from the International Space Station, according to a study published in the journal bioRxiv.