Researchers have identified buried copper ore by testing the DNA of microbes in the surface soil. These ‘biological ...

How a bacterial cell recognizes its own DNA Date: April 13, 2015 Source: Weizmann Institute of Science Summary: It may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that bacteria have an immune system ...

The trillions of bacteria in our bodies regularly exchange DNA with each other, but the idea that their genes could end up in human DNA has been very controversial. In 2001, the team that sequenced ...

Bacterial genomes tend to have very few transposons—the extra DNA isn't really in keeping with the bacterial reproduction approach of "copy all the DNA as quickly as possible when there's food ...

Beyond revealing a secret to bacterial survival, the research has uncovered components that could be applied to gene editing: ...

In a study reported in the online edition of Science on Aug. 10, 2023, a group of synthetic biologists from the University of California (UC) San Diego and clinicians from Australia have engineered ...

IS110 produces a recombinase protein and expresses a noncoding RNA. The team found that the noncoding RNA contained two loops, a donor loop that could recognize IS110’s own DNA, and a target ...

New DNA Test Delivers Results in 2 Days Health Minister Ashley Dalton praised the collaboration. “This groundbreaking use of the technology in hospitals will cut diagnosis times down from weeks ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest known cases of the plague in Great Britain. Experts share what the 4,000-year-old DNA says about the history of the disease.