To do this, they have evolved methods for importing DNA from elsewhere and utilizing it for their own purposes, transformation being one such method. In this article, we will discuss transformation, ...

Genetic competence refers to the ability of some bacteria to undergo transformation — to take up exogenous DNA and incorporate it stably into their own genome. Naturally transformable organisms ...

Key Developments in Recombinant DNA Technology Following these early ... Bacteriophages are viruses that invade and often destroy their bacterial host cells; host-controlled restriction refers ...

Instead, the procedure, meant to make pinpoint changes to DNA, can introduce significant unexpected changes without anyone noticing. “As genome-editing technology evolves, so does our ...

Their new technology, called INTEGRATE, harnesses bacterial jumping genes to reliably insert any DNA sequence into the genome without cutting DNA. Current gene-editing tools rely on cutting DNA ...

A new DNA delivery technology has been developed to fight drug-resistant bacteria, report investigators. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, affecting anyone ...

A team has now introduced a novel approach that can make many more bacteria amenable to genetic engineering. Their method, called IMPRINT, uses cell-free systems to enhance DNA transformation ...

S ome bacteria, it turns out, have proteins much like ours that organize the DNA in their cells. They just do it a bit ...

A new technique, which involves melting bacterial DNA found ... curve of the patient's own DNA, along with other "background noise." In a test of the technology, blood samples drawn from 17 ...

Theoretical physicists have proposed an explanation for how bacteria might ... sense of a world in constant transformation. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every ...