In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

Given the growing antibiotic resistance crisis, novel ways to target bacterial infections are becoming increasingly important. One potential strategy is to manipulate bacterial genes at the ...

Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a major threat to human health. Manipulation of bacterial genes at the transcriptional level is a potential strategy to fight antibiotic-resistant bacterial ...

However, plasmid copy numbers can fluctuate, causing inconsistent gene expression within bacterial populations ... plasmid copy number within individual cells and the fraction of plasmid-carrying ...

DNA sequences are integrated into selected plasmid vectors and fabricated into uniform gel ... These tags correspond to specific fluorescent proteins expressed by the bacterial cells—essentially ...

In a recent publication in Cell Reports Medicine, a collaborative research team led by Chen-Yu Zhang and Huan Wang at Nanjing ...