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

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Bacteriophages, the most abundant life form on Earth, infect bacterial cells and influence the structure of the microbial ...

The discovery of bacteria in brain implants highlights a new challenge in improving their long-term performance and safety.

Brain implants hold immense promise for restoring function in patients with paralysis, epilepsy and other neurological ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

New research could transform design of brain implants for neurological disorders to make them safer, more effectiveBrain ...

New research, in a rat model, finds that both biological sex and mitochondrial DNA – the small set of genes inherited only ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Xuanyong from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Our cells harbor a DNA detector termed cGAS to inform the immune system of viral and bacterial infections, cell death, as ...