When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified a unique genetic signature in bacteria that can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic ...

An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to build resistance to drugs.

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...