A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...
Ancient viral DNA in bacteria helps block new infections, offering a potential path to fight antibiotic resistance.
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, ...
Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Acurx" or the "Company"), is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. It announced today ...
Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...
Traditional breeding and genetic modification methods have struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of plant viruses. CRISPR/Cas systems, originally derived from bacterial immune responses, ...
Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...
Urinary tract infections are among the most common medical conditions in women, with over 50% experiencing at least one UTI in their lifetime and about 30% suffering recurrent infections. The ...
Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...
Lab testing of all four types, which were genetically identical other than their chromosome configuration, showed the fused types had fitness and replication advantages ... showing how bacteria adjust ...