Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the ...

Fifteen years later, a trio of researchers at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, demonstrated that this ...

Transformation is a genetic exchange mechanism by which “naked” DNA is taken up by bacteria. This newly acquired DNA may include genes that enable bacteria to perform tasks that were previously ...

“Wild stuff does happen.” The trillions of bacteria in our bodies regularly exchange DNA with each other, but the idea that their genes could end up in human DNA has been very controversial. In 2001, ...

This plasmid can be introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they can be used as factories to copy DNA fragments in large ...

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TUD Dresden University of ...

In 1982 Food and Drug Administration approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made from Genentech’s specially modified bacteria. It was the first drug produced through recombinant DNA ...

However, bacteria also have numerous defense mechanisms aimed at eliminating any foreign DNA entering their cells. "Conjugation is a well-known process that scientists also use in the lab to ...

“This may be fundamentally different from sexual reproduction in animals, plants, fungi, and non-bacterial organisms, where DNA is exchanged during meiosis, but the outcome in terms of species ...

The Nature Communications study was conducted by scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology ... DNA sequencing, the ...

Restriction enzymes are one of the most important tools in the recombinant DNA technology toolbox ... These plates contain colonies of bacteria. These colonies remind me of a city with many ...

What was even more interesting was the location of these genes. As mentioned, plasmids are double-stranded circular DNA segments. In order to pass through the thin tube that connects the bacteria ...