Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders—by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

The $5,000 equipment grant from the Education Foundation of Kennebunk and Arundel has transformed how students learn ...

Prokaryotes, which include bacteria and single-celled microorganisms called Archaea, usually pass their chromosomal DNA on to their offspring asexually. In other words, a bacterial cell reproduces ...

As food recalls become more prevalent, more families toss more lettuce and deli meat into the trash. This food waste is an ...

The first-of-its-kind in-depth bacterial evolutionary map could pave the way for the development of precision treatments for certain antibiotic-resistant infections, such as urinary tract infections.

Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists ... DNA transformation and plasmid transformation are the same thing: the uptake of genetic material from the environment by ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

Bacteria protect themselves from phage infections by capturing genetic material from dormant temperate phages, forming a biological "memory" that is passed to their offspring.

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