A new study reveals that even short-term use of ciprofloxacin can cause persistent antimicrobial resistance in human gut ...

they are located near the origin of DNA replication. Accordingly, their position influences how their activity changes with the growth rate. Are genes distributed randomly along the bacterial ...

Study: Saccharin disrupts bacterial cell envelope stability and interferes with DNA replication dynamics. Image Credit: Tatjana Baibakova / Shutterstock A recent study published in the journal ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

A team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific ...