The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human immune system is still “mind-blowing” for molecular biologist Joshua Modell of ...

On June 28, 2012, the most significant scientific breakthrough of the first quarter of the 21st century was announced to the ...

The idea that a single-celled bacterium can defend itself against viruses in a similar way as the 1.8-trillion-cell human ...

Viktor Mamontov, Alexander Martynov, Natalia Morozova, Anton Bukatin, Dmitry B. Staroverov, Konstantin A. Lukyanov, Yaroslav Ispolatov, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov Proceedings of the ...

When scientists discovered how bacteria protect themselves against viral invaders, called phages, in the early 2000s, little did they know they’d stumbled upon a revolutionary tool researchers could ...

The colonies of Escherichia coli sitting in this petri dish become pathogenic when they carry Shiga toxin genes. Credit: Shutterstock “We’re essentially converting a pathogenic strain into a ...

The field of food microbiology has witnessed a transformative change with the advent of CRISPR technology, which offers innovative solutions for genome ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages. Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which will inform new phage-based treatments for bacterial infections ...

All around the world — in the oceans, the soil, your body — an invisible battle is raging. Earth’s vast population of roughly 10 30 bacteria faces an unending onslaught from an even larger army of ...

Researchers have discovered a handful of new CRISPR-Cas systems that could add to the capabilities of the already transformational gene editing and DNA manipulation toolbox. Of the new recruits, one ...

One of the most revolutionary tools in cutting-edge medicine is a molecular scalpel so precise that it can modify defective DNA and fix genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia, and chronic disorders ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...