Karthik and her team aimed to use CRISPR as a way to identify and isolate a protein generated by the bacteria that cause Lyme ...

Arpita Bose and Zhecheng Zhang explore genetic tools in environmental microbes, citing applications in extracellular electron transfer ...

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

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Numerous natural products produced by microorganisms can be utilized as active ingredients to treat illnesses like cancer and infections. Although the microbes' genes contain the blueprints for these ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...

Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg have developed an AI tool that delivers fewer false-positive results than ...

The African CDC has recently warned of a surge in cholera cases across the continent. Cholera, caused by certain strains of V ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...