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Bacteria are among the most diverse lifeforms on Earth, so it’s no surprise that their genomes have yielded a treasure trove of fascinating discoveries. The study of bacterial genomes has led to the ...

When a virus infects a bacterial cell, the viral genome is the first component to be fully injected into the cell, making it an ideal immune target. A bacterial enzyme anchored to the membrane ...

Researchers have now developed a new single-cell genome technique to understand how bacteria interact and exchange genetic material, including antibiotic resistance genes at the individual cell level.

Transposons are critical drivers of bacterial evolution that have been studied for many decades and have been the subject of Nobel Prize winning research. Now, researchers from Cornell University have ...

The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

Schematic representation of the microbiome study design of 937 CRC patients from the Uppsala-Umeå Comprehensive Cancer Consortium (U-CAN) cohort. A recent study shows that bacteria living inside ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

At one time, colorectal disease was considered to be a disorder of older adults. But the demographics of patients have changed significantly in recent years, and colorectal cancer rates are rising ...

The human gut microbiome contains a diverse group of trillions of microbes including bacteria, fungi, and viruses that can affect our health. Researchers have begin to learn more about the gut ...