Nine researchers from Utrecht have received funding in the 25th round of the NWO Open Competition ENW-XS. The grants (of up to 50,000 euros) are intended to enable small-scale, innovative and risky ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to 'displace' antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria.

A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique ...

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five ...

Building a chromosome from scratch may sound like science fiction, but scientists have actually done it-and made it work. In ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack their hosts. The discovery, led by Ph.D. students Lior Aroeti ...

Bacterial genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in bacteria, their chromosomes, plasmids, transposons and phages. Techniques that have enabled this discipline are ...

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Outside magazine The idea behind sleepmaxxing — getting sufficient, good quality sleep — isn’t new, says Aruna Rao, assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “People are finally ...