Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

Understanding how bacteria form communities on surfaces, including biofilms, has significant implications for both health and ...

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

coli bacteria. In both cases, vaccination or the harmless bacteria ... possible to produce a highly effective salmonella-competitor strain with the help of genetic engineering. However, this can also ...

Genetic engineering has revolutionized the field of medicine by enabling the production of recombinant proteins, such as insulin and human growth hormone, in bacteria or other host organisms. Gene ...

Could a gene regulatory network in gut microbes have evolved its elaborate and tightly regulated molecular machinery only to pump out antibiotics indiscriminately? Researchers show this is an ...

Bacterial cells have been genetically modified ... In the future, researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be able to overcome some inherited disorders, such as cystic fibrosis and ...

Genetic engineering is the act of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism. Modifications can be generated by methods such as gene targeting, nuclear transplantation, transfection of synthetic ...

Ubiquinone, a metabolite critical to generating energy in cells, has long been thought to be the only mitochondrial electron transport chain carrier in mammals. Although other electron transporters ...

Christopher Voigt, head of MIT's Department of Biological Engineering and senior author of the ... These reporting molecules were linked to genetic circuits that detect nearby bacteria, but this ...

A new family of enzymes enables precise cuts in single-stranded DNA, offering powerful new tools for genetic engineering and ...