Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as infections or cancer. The blueprints for these molecules can be found in the ...

Gene transfer has a central role in shaping microbial community, and influences cell–cell interactions, niche adaptation and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. Accurately tracking gene ...

Gene transfer enables bacteria to adapt to their environment. To sensitively detect gene transfer, we created a synthetic biology tool that introduces an identifiable barcode into RNA when microbes ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it ...

A paper published in Biology Methods and Protocols, indicates that a new computational method may help researchers identify effective precision treatments for cancer more quickly and efficiently. The ...

Scientists from the University of Nottingham have developed a new method of genetic analysis, which extracts more precise data than previously used methods when looking at DNA, and will improve our ...