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

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

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To confirm that DGR were hypermutating their targets, the team searched for variation in the target genes. By sequencing individual genomes across hundreds of pink berries, they saw great diversity at ...

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 ...