Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University Health System (NUHS), together with an international team ...
Plants are quietly borrowing tricks from bacteria, repurposing foreign genes to build complex molecules that look a lot like ...
In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...
Microbial genetics encompasses the study of heredity and variation in microscopic organisms, providing fundamental insights into gene structure, function and regulation. This field underpins our ...
A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...
A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...
Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...
On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...
Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...
Duke-NUS and NUHS scientists uncover a complex web of genetic, age-related and microbial factors that increase the risk of stomach cancer. Age-related blood cell mutations may trigger early changes in ...