University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages – viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the ...

In a new study, scientists used nearly every tool in their toolkit—genomics, transcriptomics, greenhouse experiments and ...

The international team analyzed the genomes of more than 7,000 S. aureus samples obtained from more than 1,500 human carriers to identify genetic changes that originated in the bacteria while it ...

Human bodies are teeming with trillions of microbial cells that comprise the microbiome, many of them bacteria. Although they may be small, some of these bacteria maintain health, but others promote ...

The software identified thousands of inversions that exist in bacterial and other prokaryotic species, revealing for the first time that inversions occur within genes. That sparked the idea that not ...

The international team analysed the genomes of more than 7,000 S. aureus samples obtained from more than 1,500 human carriers to identify genetic changes that originated in the bacteria while it ...

Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...