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 ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

O ur cells harbor a DNA detector termed cGAS to inform the immune system of viral and bacterial infections, cell death, as ...

Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some ... introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they ...

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After a cell becomes infected, proteasomes undergo a transformation and begin not only to break down proteins, but also to create antibacterial peptides that break through the membranes of bacterial ...

Lactic acid bacteria are known to be the most abundant ... of normal stem cells but also the initial process of transformation from stem cells to cancer cells. "Through this study, we have found ...

OSU study links gut bacteria to autoimmune disease progression, focusing on T cell behavior in rheumatoid arthritis.

To achieve these advances, however, scientists must first know how phages specifically attach to bacterial cells early in infection — information that until now could be obtained only through a ...