By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the ...

This paper addresses the important question of quantifying epistasis patterns, which affect the predictability of evolution, by reanalyzing a recently published combinatorial deep mutational scan ...

How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

A study reveals alarming rates of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, highlighting the urgent need for ...

E. coli divides faster than it can replicate its genome, while simultaneously expressing its genes. Scientists recently revealed the intricate molecular coordination that makes this possible. Kamal is ...

A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

2002), and excision allows the expression of phage-encoded lytic genes (Kirby et al., 1994; Casjens, 2003). In many cases, Xis is no longer functional (for example, DLP12 in Escherichia coli K-12 ...

"YgaV, the SqrR homolog in E. coli, has also been reported for repressing the transcription of anaerobic respiratory genes in ...

Researchers have detailed the first E. coli O103 outbreak in England traced to raw milk cheese. In June 2022, routine ...