Luckily, the vast majority of GMOs grown in the U.S. are "engineered to produce their own pesticides, or survive direct ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

A computer-generated illustration (based on SEM images) depicting a group of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase-producing (ESBLs) ...

MIT’s moisture-sensitive sportswear might one day be genetically modified to glow in the dark ... Skin” fabric are made up of living bacteria that react to moisture. As a person sweats ...

For the science-minded, they’re genetically modified soil bacteria that work with plants to absorb and metabolize toxic chemicals commonly found indoors. “We’ve developed a natural air ...

The Rice team's new method, called RNA-addressable modification (RAM ... coli donor bacteria, which then transferred their genetic material to various microbes in a wastewater community.

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine, known as the gut microbiota, can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking ...

Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers from the Institute of ...

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 ...

The Rice team's new method, called RNA-addressable modification (RAM ... coli donor bacteria, which then transferred their genetic material to various microbes in a wastewater community.