“It was probably in about 2015 that we started working on the idea of more of a designer gene repression loop,” said Nicole Becker, a molecular biologist at the Mayo Clinic and study coauthor. In the ...

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial evolution.

"But mapping which microbes participate in gene transfer has been challenging ... "Instead of writing information randomly in bacterial DNA, which is permanent and arduous to read out, we write ...

The first-of-its-kind in-depth bacterial evolutionary map could pave the way for the development of precision treatments for certain antibiotic-resistant infections, such as urinary tract infections.

But mapping which microbes participate in gene transfer has been challenging ... "Instead of writing information randomly in bacterial DNA, which is permanent and arduous to read out, we write ...

CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a powerful tool that scientists can use to edit DNA and modify gene functions ... molecular biologist Eric Olsen. By mapping the human genome, we now know ...