Let’s consider an example of a bacterial transformation protocol using chemically competent cells and heat shock. A single colony of Escherichia coli is transferred from an agar plate to a rich liquid ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have solved a 60-year-old mystery in bacterial cell envelope ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a new strategy used by ...

For the first time, a scientific study has succeeded in using live microbes to produce medicine — by digesting and fermenting ...

How viruses destroy bacteria Date: November 19, 2009 Source: Texas A&M University Summary: Viruses are well known for attacking humans and animals, but some viruses instead attack bacteria.

Polard and his team began their investigations by engineering a strain of S. pneumoniae that emits fluorescent signals when a cell becomes competent, allowing the researchers to track how the strategy ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in ... to cross bacterial membranes on its own. These cells were not ... of a world in constant transformation.