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 ...

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 ...

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

This is the first gene editor to use a CRISPR-associated transposase to make targeted edits at therapeutically useful levels in humans.

University of Oklahoma researchers have discovered that some bacteria in the gut have their own unique "weapon system" to ...

Bacterial cells have colonized every part of our world. But even though some can evade disinfectants to live in NASA cleanrooms, others are ... | Microbiology ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...

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

This transformation helps acinar cells protect themselves from damage caused by the inflammation. Because the epigenome decides which genes are turned on and off to give cells their identity ...

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 ...