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 ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

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 ...

Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists ... DNA transformation and plasmid transformation are the same thing: the uptake of genetic material from the environment by ...

As food recalls become more prevalent, more families toss more lettuce and deli meat into the trash. This food waste is an ...