Bacteria engineered to copy DNA with synthetic base pairs Opens the door to expanding the genetic code in living creatures.

From a bacteria's perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as large pieces of old DNA from this scrapheap and ...

Bacteria engineered to destroy DNA can remove more than 99 per cent of genes that confer antibiotic resistance from wastewater.

DNA is a critical food source in the battle of the fittest, say molecular biologists at the University of Southern California.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread ...

An average gram of soil is full of DNA. Some of it is enclosed inside bacteria, worms or insects, but of lot of it is just lying around. It came from living things that died and decomposed ...

Bacteria have a complicated immune system that helps them recognize and isolate foreign DNA trying to invade their cell membrane, according to a University of Washington-led study in the June 8 ...

Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of ...

Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might transmit electromagnetic signals: Chromosomes could act like antennae, with electrons traveling gene circuits to produce ...

Many bacteria take DNA from other live microbes using a complex system of around 40 genes. But when Overballe-Petersen knocked out part of this machinery in his bacteria, they carried on taking in ...

Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors ...