Red arrows indicate the DNA repair pathways that are known to aid bacterial survival as persisters and gamblers in the ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA ...

For example, every research sample, such as a tube with a DNA plasmid, has two facets ... such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bacterial transformations, are methods I had used before but never ...

"It's a completely brand-new type of CRISPR chemistry," says co-first author Christian Baca, a TPCB graduate student in the Marraffini lab. "It's more evidence that CRISPR systems have an array of ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and ...

This transfer occurs via plasmids, which are small pieces of circular DNA separate from the main chromosome. This process happens through physical contact between two bacteria. A "bridge" forms, ...

rustigianii carries a cytolethal distending toxin virulence gene on its plasmid. Elimination of this gene did not reduce the bacteria's virulence, however. "Using the pathogenicity gene discovered ...

Most of the genetic material of bacteria is packed into a long, circular DNA molecule ... which binds to the plasmid. X-rays were used to produce a detailed picture of a relaxase that binds ...

This important study explores the interplay between gene dosage and gene mutations in the evolution of antibiotic resistance. The authors provide solid evidence to connect proteostasis with gene ...

A: Animal; ACE: Accessory cholera enterotoxin; H: Human; ZOT: Zonula occludens toxin.