Transformation is a genetic exchange mechanism by which “naked” DNA is taken up by bacteria. This newly acquired DNA may include genes that enable bacteria to perform tasks that were previously ...

A study led by scientists at Stanford Medicine has shown that inversions, which cause a physical flip of a segment of DNA ... the right technology and biological question to be asked,” Chanin said.

A new study has revealed that gut bacteria may play a key role in aging, and that specific microbes could be targeted to ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine discovered that bacteria can perform DNA inversions within single genes ... waiting for the right tool and the right technology and biological question to be asked,” ...

Shih is also an investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley. "The current plant transformation ...

In 1982 Food and Drug Administration approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made from Genentech’s specially modified bacteria. It was the first drug produced through recombinant DNA ...

This plasmid can be introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they can be used as factories to copy DNA fragments in large ...

In the early 1950s, experiments by two teams of researchers, Salvador Luria working with Mary Human and Joe Bertani working with Jean Weigle, showed that some strains of bacteria were more ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be ... change one letter of the DNA code to another. So why do we call it CRISPR? Cas proteins are used by bacteria to destroy viral DNA. They add bits of viral ...