In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...

You’ll likely give a fecal sample to your doctor so that your microbiome can be sequenced and available for the doctor’s medical reference.” ...

Roughly one out of three women ages 14-49 in the United States develop a vaginal bacterial imbalance known as bacterial ...

James Chappell, associate professor of biosciences and bioengineering at Rice University. In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular ...

One potential strategy is to manipulate bacterial genes at the transcriptional level by silencing their resistance genes. However, siRNAs have not been applied to regulate bacterial genes due to ...