Some viruses that infect bacteria carry an enzyme that gives them away. When that enzyme, a protease, cuts a particular ...

Researchers have identified and engineered a set of exceptionally strong constitutive promoters from Lactococcus cremoris, ...

A structural analysis using AlphaFold2 reveals that symbiotic rhizobial effectors are modular proteins carrying hidden DNA- ...

A team of biochemists at the University of Minnesota (UMN) accidentally discovered that a single bacterial DNA repair gene ...

How do bacteria adapt when resources run low? ISTA researchers have found that, under starvation stress, E. coli can use ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown microorganism that has the smallest genome ever found and may be able to ...

Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...

These factors include genetic and age-related blood mutations, smoking and infection by oral bacteria. Published in Cancer Discovery, the findings provide new insight into the earliest biological ...

As waves of humans left Africa tens of thousands of years ago, eventually populating the entire planet, they were joined on their world-conquering ride by the trillions of microorganisms that compose ...

Genetics are thought to explain about half of a person’s risk of developing type 1 diabetes. What decides the rest has been ...

A study of 50 women with surgically confirmed endometriosis found that differences in gut bacterial composition were ...