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, ...

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

Adapted from a news release by the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley.The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to ...

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 ...

Our primary goal was to develop two real-time multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for simultaneous detection of ...

"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 ...

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

Researchers discovered that the CRISPR-Cas10 system not only cuts viral DNA but also produces toxic cyclic-oligoadenylates ...

Cas9, cuts any RNA or DNA it recognizes as foreign, and thereby protects bacteria from viral attacks. Another CRISPR system, one that is relatively obscure, protects bacteria in an entirely different ...

Area researchers are helping investigate the promise and the perils of psychedelic drugs as public interest grows.