Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

"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 ...

They observed that recombination occurs frequently and randomly across the entire genome of microbes, and not just in a few ...

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 keeping their species distinct and thriving. This discovery opens up ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...

Evidence has emerged about the way bacteria become resistant to multiple drugs. The findings by a John Innes Centre research ...

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 ...

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