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 ...

Using third-generation metagenomics, researchers from the Department of Plant Production and Microbiology at the Miguel ...

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 ...

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 ...

The body defends itself against pathogens by depriving them of vital iron. However, this strategy doesn't always succeed against Salmonella. Researchers have discovered that these bacteria ...

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 ...

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

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