In a laboratory in Ulsan, South Korea, scientists have quietly pulled off what might become one of the most important ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which often deadly pathogen infections can be ...

Researchers discovered lariocidin, a lasso peptide antibiotic that kills multidrug-resistant bacteria by binding a novel ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

A natural antibacterial molecule shows clinical promise. Its unusual binding site is on an excellent target: ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems.

By writing genetic information directly into the 16S rRNA -- a molecule universally found in bacteria -- the researchers could track which microbes acquired foreign DNA without disrupting their ...

RNA was extracted and the V1–V2 region of the retrotranscribed bacterial 16S rRNA amplified and sequenced on the Illumina MiSeq platform. Results Overall, 687 bacterial phylotypes that belonged to 95 ...