An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

"In studying it, we found that it recognizes a specific sequence that is found in many instances in its genome and plays a ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

A revised timeline of bacterial evolution revealed that some ancient aerobic bacteria existed before oxygen became common in ...

One Genome’ mission, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (BRIC) are ...

Researchers suggest the bacteria could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, acting as sensors to help farmers ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

Monitoring and analyzing gut microbes may help predict how myeloma patients will respond to CAR T-cell therapy, research ...

“When phage infect a bacterial cell, the EPI vesicle protects the genome of the virus during early stages of infection when it’s very vulnerable,” said Emily Armbruster, a UC San Diego School of ...

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