When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

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 ...

Studying the cell is a difficult and time-consuming process, but scientists have pinpointed generative AI as a potential way to make it easier. The idea is to develop an AI virtual cell that would ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria - like plants and animals - are organized into species, he upended a ...

In reality, this is a "mammoth project, comparable to the genome project ... such as mice and Escherichia coli, are unequally represented in sequence and literature databases, which when used ...

A report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Food Safety Authority highlights the ...

However, new findings from Konstantinidis and his team suggest otherwise, positing that bacteria not only form species but also maintain cohesion within these species through mechanisms that closely ...

After entering, a phage can either force the cell to produce more phages and eventually explode, a process called cell lysis, or the phage can integrate its genome into the bacterial one and ...