Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists use to introduce foreign DNA into bacterial cells. There are two main methods by which this is achieved: Gram positive and Gram ...

Researchers discovered that saccharin kills drug-resistant bacteria, disrupts their DNA, and helps antibiotics work better.

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

In the journal Science, they explain that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important for ...

Crucially, CRISPR systems can only destroy DNA that matches a "memory" captured ... in separate flasks that contained millions of bacterial cells. "Our results indicate that the bacteria's CRISPR ...

As food recalls become more prevalent, more families toss more lettuce and deli meat into the trash. This food waste is an ...

One researchers explained that bacteria do a really, really good job of keeping the sequence you want and the sequence that you get.

HGT events from soil bacteria to plants have contributed to ... i.e., methods that target gene expression without altering ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial ...