Some bacteria, it turns out, have proteins much like ours that organize the DNA in their cells. They just do it a bit ...

An illustration of DNA broken into two pieces ... includes a prepackaged experiment using E. coli bacteria.

If the bacteria are indeed in the blood, they will proceed to grow. It can take anywhere from 15 hours to several days, however, before they've grown to detectable levels.

In the first type of signaling pathway, bacteria use the same sensor and effector proteins, cGAS and STING, to respond to phages as humans use to respond to DNA viruses (e.g., smallpox-like viruses).

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...

A new study adds to an emerging, radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair faulty sections of their DNA. Published online May 16 in the journal Cell, the report describes the ...

"All bacteria have double-stranded DNA, but viruses have different kinds of structure — there are DNA genomes, RNA genomes, double-stranded, single-stranded …" Anantharaman told Live Science.

Their work involved sequencing and computer analysis of bacterial DNA from the samples. The team looked for overlaps between ruminates and humans as a way to identify bacteria capable of breaking ...