"It's why bacteria evolve so rapidly," Fu said. "Sometimes, plasmids can integrate into genomic DNA, but this happens quite randomly. They might cause difficulty for individual bacterial survival ...
Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928, 25 years before the structure of DNA was solved, British bacteriologist ...
Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily ... Homologous recombination occurs when microbes exchange DNA ...
Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...
New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...
In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in ...
A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of ...
An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow ...
coli, with far-reaching implications for how all cells maintain genomic stability ... All living things rely on RNAP to transcribe DNA into RNA. In bacteria, researchers have long known that ...
An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to build resistance to drugs.