Microplastics are seemingly everywhere—and now growing research suggests they could be generating drug-resistant bacteria ...

IIT Madras researchers have created a low-cost microfluidic chip that detects bacterial resistance to antibiotics within ...

Our trash heaps grow higher and higher, but a team of researchers at Binghamton University in New York made something that ...

Cutting-edge centrifugation technology streamlines bacterial harvesting, DNA purification, and RNA synthesis for high-volume ...

This study presents a valuable comparison of the efficiency and precision of two prime editing methods to introduce single-nucleotide variants and longer exogenous DNA sequences into the zebrafish ...

Competent cells—bacterial cells engineered to efficiently uptake foreign DNA—are at the heart of modern molecular biology ...

In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do.

Natural transformation, an essential mechanism for genetic exchange, plays a critical role in the life cycle of Gram-positive bacteria. This article uses the typical Gram-positive bacteria ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.

In this article, we discuss transformation, bacterial transformation in particular, and how scientists can utilize it to manipulate bacteria for a plethora of purposes.