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 ...

New research shows nanoplastics increase pathogen risk, affecting E. coli virulence and gene transfer, posing health hazards.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

In contrast to humans, bacteria have the remarkable ability to exchange genetic material with one another. A well-known example with far-reaching consequences is the transfer of antibiotic ...

“What the phages do is they get into the pore and look for that specific bacteria, and then they poke it and release genetic material into that bacteria and neutralize it,” he said. Neil ...

In contrast to humans, bacteria have the remarkable ability to exchange genetic material with each other. A well-known example with far-reaching consequences is the transfer of antibiotic ...

[Karen Kasmauski/Getty Images] The study also revealed how these bacteria recombine genetic material within and between species. The researchers identified specific hot spots in the bacterial ...

The researchers took stool samples from healthy mice and tumor-bearing mice, extracted bacterial genetic material from them, and finally used rRNA sequencing. They then compared these data with ...

By analysing bacterial genetic material directly, we can detect even complex infections “more accurately, and much faster than traditional methods,” Butler said. “This means we can precisely ...

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