How would you make transcription and translation work when you no longer have a nucleus? Bacteria have an interesting answer. Attenuation, or dampening, of the trp operon is made possible by the ...

The relationships between the immune systems of humans and bacteria are especially interesting, Whiteley says, because these four pathways are likely to have been passed to eukaryotes by horizontal ...

Finally, the noisy gene expression data collected from bacterial populations made sense, though it came as a surprise to the team. “We never really expected to find a system that was much more general ...

In this issue (p. 916), Chua and colleagues describe such a system, based on a selectable marker that eliminates the need for any bacterial antibiotic resistance gene. Their vector imparts ...

Their study highlights the crucial role of bacterial symbioses and horizontal gene transfer in enabling leaf beetles to effectively digest plant matter. The team uncovered how bacterial ...

Gene-edited soil bacteria can supply corn with up to 35 pounds of nitrogen per acre from the atmosphere during early growth, potentially reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

“It was probably in about 2015 that we started working on the idea of more of a designer gene repression loop,” said Nicole ... dimer repression mechanism against new regions of DNA in bacteria and ...

An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to build resistance to drugs.

Excitingly, the team used genetic approaches to show that the same gene mutation in wheat enhances colonization by nitrogen fixing bacteria and AMF in field conditions too. The findings represent ...