The recent unearthing of bacteria capable of surviving in nuclear waste is a groundbreaking development with the potential to ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of ...

Researchers have discovered how "pirate phages" hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...

Transposons, or “jumping genes” – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of antibiotic resistance. Cornell ...

DNA methylation in bacteria, primarily involving the addition of methyl groups to adenine or cytosine residues, constitutes a pivotal epigenetic mechanism that modulates gene expression without ...

DNA replication is a fundamental process essential for bacterial growth and survival. Initiation begins at the chromosomal origin (oriC), where the conserved initiator protein DnaA assembles into ...

An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it ...