A new study published in PLOS Genetics has identified an extreme mutational hotspot within the genome of Pseudomonas ...

This method of bacterial genome sequencing could be used to identify antibiotic-resistant strains—for example, in patients with urinary tract infections—or to locate beneficial strains in fecal ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial ...

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous ...

Researchers have uncovered mechanisms by which mobile genetic elements integrate into the chromosomes of bacteria with linear genomes.

Researchers at Duke University and North Carolina State University have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that ...

Patagonia’s ‘living rocks’ hold ancient bacterial biofilms, offering insights into early life and potential bioengineering ...

In this way, they systematically tweaked the genome until the cells were able to grow under standard culture conditions at roughly the same rate as unmodified bacteria — a non-trivial result ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really ...

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society and are used for numerous applications ...

Max Planck researchers discovered a 5,000-fold increase in the mutation rate in the genome of *Pseudomonas fluorescens*. The mutation regularly occurred in the promoter region of the *rpoS* gene and ...