Based on bacterial genes, the team identified a human protein ... Similarly, mice with a genetic knockout of the mouse equivalent of SELENBP1 had low levels of the protein and high levels of ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from ... "If you could target the end, you're less likely to knock ...

These collections aspire to have a separate, labelled colony of mutant bacteria for every viable knockout mutant -- that is, the scientists inactivate every gene one by one, and save a sample of ...

Behold syn3.0, a synthetic bacterial genome that’s smaller ... without disturbing expression of the remaining genes. To deliberately knock out genetic function, the researchers inserted foreign ...

No cells of the adaptive immune system - key to attacking and destroying bacteria and other pathogens - develop in the absence of the gene Bcl11a. The result will help to understand the human ...

By studying patients from families afflicted with bad breath, and evaluating mice in which a suspect gene was “knocked ... Similarly, mice with a genetic knockout of the mouse equivalent of ...

After decades of research, phages or bacteriophage viruses that target and kill specific bacteria are seen as the ... "Sphae ...

A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, captured which genes bacteria turn on in different situations and in different spatial environments.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments that can ... “If you could target the end, you’re less likely to knock out something that the host wants, and then these ...