Pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli encompasses an intricate process by which these filamentous organelles are assembled and deployed to mediate adhesion, colonisation, and biofilm formation. Central ...
Swapping a single amino acid in a simple bacterial protein changes its structure and function, revealing the effects of complex gene evolution, finds a new study published in the journal eLife. The ...
An E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers has caused illnesses in at least 49 people across 10 states, leaving 10 people hospitalized and one dead, the Centers for Disease ...
The synthetic DNA contains 61 codons, as opposed to the 64 typically found in living organisms NIAID via Flickr under CC BY SA-2.0 Researchers from England’s Medical Research Council Laboratory of ...
Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the ...
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