A groundbreaking study reveals why colorectal cancer rates are soaring in adults under 50. Childhood exposure to colibactin ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Beyond revealing a secret to bacterial survival, the research has uncovered components that could be applied to gene editing: guide DNA, which is more stable and cheaper to synthesize than guide ...

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 ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

DNA from bacteria has stimulatory effects on mammalian immune cells1,2,3, which depend on the presence of unmethylated CpG dinucleotides in the bacterial DNA. In contrast, mammalian DNA has a low ...

Bacterial telomeres. While most bacterial DNA is in the form of plasmids, there are some that have linear DNA that contain telomeres. Though the presence of telomeres at the ends of the linear ...

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

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 ...

The BREX system enhances bacterial antiviral defense by modifying its own DNA to distinguish it from viral DNA, a mechanism more complex than classical restriction-modification systems.

Now Drexel researchers have developed a simple DNA PCR-based lab test — built on a more detailed genetic analysis of the main group of bacterial organisms that cause the infection — to help clinicians ...