The microbial arms race, in which bacteria battle with each other, viruses, and other organisms for space and nutrients, has ...

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

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how bacteria share genes—including those that spread antibiotic resistance.

A single protein bolted to the inner membrane of a bacterial cell can shred a virus’s DNA before that genetic material ever ...

(Nanowerk News) Targeted editing of genetic information has advanced at an extraordinary pace in recent years. Tools such as the CRISPR-Cas9 “gene scissors” and base editing—a technique that makes ...

A newly discovered mechanism renders antibiotic-resistant bacteria vulnerable by disabling both their individual resistance ...

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein that can both sense and counteract viral infections. In the new study, ...

Targeted editing of genetic information has advanced at an extraordinary pace in recent years. Tools such as the CRISPR-Cas9 “gene scissors” and base editing—a technique that makes precise, ...

When harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli, invade through the digestive tract, gut cells usually fight back by pushing infected cells out of the body to stop the infection from ...