Skin bacteria may protect against UV damage by metabolizing a sun-induced molecule, influencing immune responses.

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 ...

A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A joint research team from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of ...

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 ...