Bacteria populate virtually every habitat on Earth, including within and on our own bodies. Understanding and engineering bacteria can lead to new methods for diagnosing, treating, and preventing ...

A technique developed by Politecnico di Milano researchers is enabling scientists to control specific bacterial functions ...

Columbia University researchers have developed a "bacterial suicide squad" that targets tumors by combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering. The researchers ...

Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...

Bacteria possess unique traits with great potential for benefiting society. However, current genetic engineering methods to harness these advantages are limited to a small fraction of bacterial ...

Professor Jeff Hasty They began to formulate the possibility of engineering bacteria ... from traditional parent-to-offspring genetic inheritance. While horizontal gene transfer is widely known from ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a tool that can be used to switch a plant's key genetic traits on or ...

Other species are better at finding tumors or keeping inflammation down, and genetic engineering might combine several of these attributes into one super-microbe. Bacteria are already approved for ...

Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...