Researchers led by Imperial College London have uncovered new insights into how bacteria hook up to exchange DNA that helps them resist antibiotics. Understanding the molecular basis of bacterial ...

Bacteria can swap genetic material with one another easily; one way they do it is a process called bacterial conjugation, which scientists have known about since the 1940s. But now, a major part of ...

There is a debate about whether antibiotics influence the rate at which bacteria acquire drug resistance, with some researchers showing that exposure to antibiotics increases the spread of antibiotic ...

Conjugation has classically been considered a bacterium-to-bacterium DNA transfer driven by the donor cell and is typically plasmid-encoded. Theoretically it is possible that any type of cell can ...

Peptides and proteins incorporating an unusual amino acid, selenocysteine, easily conjugate with small molecules—including antibiotics to which bacteria have become resistant. Fortunately, ...

The global spread of antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue and a priority for international microbiology research. In a new paper, researchers report on filming the process of ...

Improper use of antibiotics makes it easier for drug-resistant strains of bacteria to arise. But as even drug-sensitive bacteria find loopholes, the problem might be even more dire than once thought.

Bacterial blushing: Donor (red) bacteria have a repressor that blocks red fluorescent protein (RFP). Following conjugation, a bacterium (indicated by the arrow) that lacks the repressor receives the ...

Researchers have uncovered new details about how bacteria hook up to exchange DNA that helps them resist antibiotics. Researchers have uncovered new details about how bacteria hook up to exchange DNA ...

In a recent study published in the iScience journal, researchers assessed the efficiency of immunization with a bacterial peptide conjugated to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...