An image and short ... Using a genome editing tool known as Crispr, US scientists inserted a gif - five frames of a horse galloping - into the DNA of bacteria. Then the team sequenced the ...

that contains the genome and leg-like fibers supporting the phage as it lands on the surface of bacteria, preparing to infect the living bacterial cell. The researchers determined the structures ...

Advertisement Studies show the communities of microbes living ... "Computational methods allow us to understand bacteria that we cannot yet culture in the lab," Rob Finn, researcher at the ...

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and the University of Maryland have revealed how bacterial and archaea microbes ... large multicellular organisms like us, and by acquiring different genes ...

The study is an interesting—if slightly gimmicky—way to show off Crispr's power to turn ... about themselves and to store it in their genome for us to look at later.” That concept is called ...

This method of bacterial genome sequencing could be used to identify antibiotic-resistant strains—for example, in patients with urinary tract infections—or to locate beneficial strains in fecal ...

Hard drives will one day seem as primitive as punch cards or floppy disks, and it may turn out that the medium that replaces them was inside us all ... the genome of living bacteria.

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of 61 unidentified microorganisms taken from hospital patient blood and tissue samples has identified 35 new bacterial strains, some of which can cause infection. An ...

"We now know that at least in bacteria, there can be other instructions not preserved in the genome that are nonetheless ... "It repeatedly left us in disbelief," Tang says, "and we went from ...

“A typical bacterial genome is three million base pairs long, but time fragments the ancient DNA we recover to an average length of only about 30 to 50 base pairs,” said Christina ...