Red arrows indicate the DNA repair pathways that are known to aid bacterial survival as persisters and gamblers in the ...

Bacteria frequently encounter adverse environmental conditions, such as nutrient scarcity and antibiotic exposure, which can induce DNA damage ...

A new study has revealed that gut bacteria may play a key role in aging, and that specific microbes could be targeted to ...

A cutting-edge diagnostic test is helping some doctors find diagnoses for medical mysteries by analyzing DNA and RNA to ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon cancer by binding to intestinal cells and ...

During transcription, a bacteria transcribes a part of its DNA into RNA and reads from that RNA to make proteins. The microbe ...

Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of cancer, and the incidence of the disease is rising, especially among younger ...

Most of the disease-causing bacteria secrete matrix-like layers around themselves called biofilms. These biofilms act as ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Rather than looking for single types of pathogen one by one, the test analyzes all RNA and DNA that are present in a sample, ...

Some bacteria can cause mutations associated with colon cancer. Insights about the surface adhesion proteins that enable ...