What if the Trojan horse had been pulled to pieces, revealing the ruse and fending off the invasion, just as it entered the ...

A key feature of this process is natural competence, the ability of bacteria to take up free DNA from their surroundings. V. cholerae becomes naturally competent when it grows on chitinous surfaces, a ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

Like most bacteria, Vibrio cholerae lives under constant attack from viruses. To survive, bacteria equip themselves with antiviral immune systems ...

Researchers have built a platform that programs short DNA fragments inside living cells to control protein activity, all ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered thousands of new proteins that protect ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then transplanting the genome of another species into it, blurring the boundary ...