The ability to precisely edit the genomes of bacteria has long been a goal of microbiologists. Such technology would enable ...

A major collaboration involving nine labs, led by scientists at Gladstone Institutes, has transferred a particularly useful ...

A vital component in many research fields is the ability to measure bacterial growth for fermentation, antibiotic effectiveness, synthetic biology, and food safety. Estimating bacterial growth ...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are pivotal to both traditional and modern fermentation processes, serving as essential agents in food production and probiotic development. Their metabolic ...

Scientists assess bacterial growth trajectories to better predict infectious capacity and the conditions that aid proliferation. This article explores the key factors that influence bacterial ...

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are leveraging a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to advance their mechanistic insights into gut microbes.

Because CRISPR news tends to focus on the applications of genome editing—such as treating genetic diseases or improving food—it may be easy to forget that the system is, at its core, used by bacteria ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...