Bacteria have a lot of ways to increase their chances of survival, including flipping their genes backward.
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Changes in the gut microbiome of paternal mice increase the risk of low birth weight and premature mortality in offspring.
New research unravels the nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)
Can your itchy scalp be a source of your DNA?
This new tool and future developments in CRISPRi technology will likely be important for humans to work with microorganisms, together pushing the limits of biotechnology.
500 million years ago, a bacterial gene was incorporated into the evolution of the human eye
How can we use new sequencing technologies to efficiently screen for viral infections such as SARS-CoV-2?
The genetic code is highly conserved. However, some bacteria-infecting viruses called phages have redefined the code, possibly to fine-tune the timing of lifestyle transitions.
The many genes of an organism are all not equally important. Which are crucial and how do they differ between bacteria?
A,T,C,G is our universal genetic alphabet, from viruses to human beings. But some viruses like to stand out from all of us and use another letter: Z.
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