How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...

The common bacterium E. coli is traditionally used to produce recombinant ... large volumes of high-quality recombinant proteins. The genome of the malaria parasite, P. falciparum, was sequenced ...

These manipulations intend to introduce new functional features while meticulously balancing the native functions of replication, reproduction, and growth. Genome construction involves three basic ...

Hong Kong authorities are using advanced genome sequencing to see whether separate ... after a suspected outbreak of a highly toxic E coli strain at a hospital where two other doctors have also ...

LBP-EC01 is a bacteriophage ‘cocktail’ that has been modified using CRISPR/Cas3 gene-editing to improve its ability to target the E coli genome. Lab studies have demonstrated it is ...

Earlier this month, the agency confirmed at least 37 people had been admitted to hospital following the E. coli outbreak, which it believed to be linked to food. Whole genome sequencing of samples ...