One of the main challenges of contemporary medicine is posed by the resistance of pathogens to antibiotics. An important step in countering it has now been made by researchers from IOCB Prague, in ...

For Caetano-Anolles, co-evolution from a single common ancestor seems to be the most likely origin of viruses and bacteria.

CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA ...

RNA extraction plays an important role in cancer genetic research. It involves mutation analysis, comparative genomic ...

Microbes are known to survive in extreme environments, but some hit closer to home—turns out that microwaves have their own ...

The innate immune system is the body’s first line of defence against pathogens like bacteria or viruses. TRIM25 is a protein ...

Unexpectedly, Cingolani and Briani’s study revealed the virion-associated RNA polymerase is part of a genome ejection motor ...

Some pathogenic microorganisms (bacilli of anthrax, Clostridium perfringens, S. pneumoniae, causative agents of plague and ...

The method, called Genotypic and Phenotypic Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing through RNA detection, or GoPhAST-R, analyzes ...

Charting the "dark matter" of the viral universe has implications not just for biotechnology—but potentially for battling the ...

The antibiotic, rifaximin, has enabled the global emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium, or VRE, a superbug that frequently causes serious infections in hospitalised patients, ...

Researchers explore the potential diagnostic utility of transcriptomic and metabolic signals in the genitourinary system.