By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the ...

Moreover, the detection of a stretch of bacterial DNA cannot differentiate between dead and alive bacterial cells ... direct transfer to a MALDI target plate. Several simple MALDI mass ...

Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928 ... This DNA-sharing process, known as horizontal or lateral gene transfer (LGT) ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

between cells of the same bacterial type as well as between different bacterial types. In this way, "lateral transfer" of genetic information allows for tremendous variation. 3,700 mya ...

In contrast to humans, bacteria have the remarkable ability to exchange genetic material with one another. A well-known example with far-reaching consequences is the transfer of antibiotic ...

A plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecule that is distinct from a cell's chromosomal DNA. Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some eukaryotes.

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...