What if the Trojan horse had been pulled to pieces, revealing the ruse and fending off the invasion, just as it entered the ...

When CRISPR cuts a gene flanked by short, repeating DNA sequences, the cell’s repair machinery gets confused. It simply zips ...

In a study published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Nagoya University researchers demonstrated that native soil ...

Excessive use of antibiotics in medicine, it seems, is not the only factor driving resistant bugs. The new research also ...

Researchers have found that certain bacteria carry a naturally occurring system, built from repurposed CRISPR components, ...

Like most bacteria, Vibrio cholerae lives under constant attack from viruses. To survive, bacteria equip themselves with ...

Researchers have developed an AI tool that can help determine whether unfamiliar bacteria carry genetic features linked to ...

Rice bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, remains a major threat to global food security. Over the past decades, genetic research has elucidated the complex interplay between ...

In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might ...

UTIA animal science faculty receive 5-year NIFA grant to study the process at the genetic, cellular and microbial levels.

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in genetics and the make-up of the microbes in their mouths. A new study has ...

Previously unseen bacteria have been discovered inside beached pygmy sperm whales, baffling scientists due to their potential ...