Scientists hope genetically modified mice will curb the spread of Lyme disease. They headed to Nantucket — home to a large ...

Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is an anaerobic bacterium notably enriched in the gut microbiota of colorectal cancer ...

A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new ...

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

A research team led by scientists from the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) has introduced a new way to fine-tune genetic material. Their study, published in Nature ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

Contributed by Terence Hwa; received December 27, 2024; accepted March 21, 2025; reviewed by Vickery L. Arcus and Seppe Kuehn ...

Phage tail piracy is a cross-species gene-transfer path that spreads AMR and creates new targets for antimicrobial therapies.

Researchers have discovered how 'pirate phages' hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for ...

This study illustrates a valuable application of BID-seq to bacterial RNA, allowing transcriptome-wide mapping of pseudouridine modifications across various bacterial species. The evidence presented ...