The first-of-its-kind in-depth bacterial evolutionary map could pave the way for the development of precision treatments for ...

A new study from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on how bacterial motion influences ...

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial evolution.

The word “episome” would later be replaced by a synonym, “plasmid.” Scientists now recognize plasmids as a major mechanism for transferal of antibiotic-resistance genes—sometimes whole ...

For example, multi-drug resistance to antibiotics and the ability to produce a substance ... by finally filling in the gaps ...

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist ... The recent emergence and spread of a plasmid-encoded, transferable colistin resistance gene, mcr-1, is a cause for concern. The mcr-1 ...

The study focused on pLS20, a widely distributed plasmid found in Bacilli subtilis ... could also lead to better predictive models of how antibiotic resistance spreads. "Our study brings about ...

For generations, a tiny piece of DNA has mastered the art of inheritance by hijacking the yeast cell’s division machinery, ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that bacterial movement plays a central role in the transfer of ...