A genomic neighbor typing method uses nanopore sequencing to predict antibiotic resistance in approximately 10 minutes from minimal DNA input.

Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a ...

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes have seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding ...

The Bacterial Genomic DNA Isolation Kit was used to isolate genomic DNA from 1 mL overnight culture (1 x 109 cells) of the Gram negative bacteria E. coli (Lanes 1 and 2), the lysozyme-resistant ...

A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

On Wednesday, a pair of papers in Nature describe a DNA-based parasite that moves itself around bacterial genomes through a mechanism that hasn't been previously described.

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...

Scientists have reconstructed the genomes of microbes from the Stone Age, and used them to produce new molecules. The complex puzzle was pieced together from DNA fragments of bacteria on the teeth ...

The phi29 DNA polymerase is commonly used in single-cell whole genome amplification, but suffers from problems of low genome coverage and low efficiency.

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

“Through heterologous cell fusion, we found that there is exchange of DNA between the microbes and that the resulting hybrid cells contain large amounts of genomic DNA from both organisms.” The ...