A full explanation of how bacteria develop antimicrobial resistance and the research efforts to stop it.

Suppressing the *rpoS* promoter reduced the mutation rate by a factor of 60. This suggests that similar mutation hotspots could exist in other genes and bacterial species.

Extreme mutation hotspot in bacteria discovered, with high mutation rates linked to transcriptional activation by Max Planck Society The position of CC mutations found within nlpD.

When introducing genes into yeast to make it produce drugs and other useful substances, it is also necessary to reliably switch the production on or off. A Kobe University team found three gene ...

Houseflies greatly amplify the risk of human exposure to harmful microorganisms. Flies caught in three hospices carried microbes that may be resistant to antibiotics.

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

In bacterial transcription, sigma factors trigger recognition of a specific promoter — or a region of genetic information right at the start of the DNA sequence that's needed to produce a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert warning people about the risks of flesh-eating bacteria across the U.S. East Coast after five people died following ...

Madonna, 64, is delaying her upcoming tour as she recovers from a "serious bacterial infection" that had her hospitalized, her manager said Wednesday.

The newly proposed system, with engineered promoters, allows such accuracy to be obtained for the first time using electrical stimulus in bacteria. The research is published today in Science Advances.

An inferred mechanistic model that connects sequence (genotype) to function (constitutive gene expression phenotype) for any random sequence in Escherichia coli reveals the structure of constitutive ...