Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

says Modell. The Johns Hopkins investigators say bacteria have long been known to use CRISPR-Cas systems to chop up phage DNA, break it down and get rid of it. Crucially, CRISPR systems can only ...

says Modell. The Johns Hopkins investigators say bacteria have long been known to use CRISPR-Cas systems to chop up phage DNA, break it down and get rid of it. Crucially, CRISPR systems can only ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Using the bacterium Streptococcus thermophilis, a team led by Philippe Horvath at the Danish food ingredient company Danisco, integrated bacteriophage sequences into "clustered regularly interspersed ...

Viruses known as “jumbo phage” are a new hope against the rising antibacterial infection crisis. Researchers have discovered ...

CRISPR systems in general act as "molecular scissors" by cutting DNA into pieces, be it in a lab-based setting or, in nature, inside a bacterium to destroy a phage. Imagine wanting to use a phage ...

This important study analyzes the effect of heat treatment on phage-bacterial interactions and convincingly shows that prior heat exposure alters the bacterial cell envelope, enhancing persistence and ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

Researchers designed a CRISPR-based test that rapidly detects low levels of pathogen genetic material in blood. This is done without the need for nucleic acid amplification. In CRISPR/Cas-based ...

In an unprecedented procedure, CRISPR gene editing has been used to treat cancer. A research team from Tel Aviv University, led by Razan Masarwy, successfully used CRISPR to cut a gene from head and ...