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, ...

New research has identified a unique genetic signature in bacteria that can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance, a finding that can help quickly identify precision-based ...

How did scientists determine that DNA is the hereditary material ... the virulence of the S strain was destroyed by heating the bacteria. Thus, he was surprised to find that mice died when ...

The toolkit is designed to seamlessly integrate with classroom lesson plans, helping students develop essential laboratory skills including centrifugation, bacterial transformation, DNA isolation ...