If you are anything like us, whenever you plan a journey, you spend a remarkable amount of time thinking about the start and the middle. Is everything packed? What time should we leave? Will there be ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don’t undergo mitosis, a splitting that involves construction of spindles to carefully separate the DNA after ...

In many bacteria, the DnaA protein, responsible for chromosome replication initiation, also acts as a transcription factor regulating its own gene expression and the expression of other loci. Here, we ...

Hidden mechanisms in extracellular DNA spotted by researchers at Aarhus University enable dormant viruses to become ...

Zombie’ bacteria, or more specifically the prophages they harbor, continue to synthesize extracellular DNA after they have ...

Archaeal DNA replication combines features of bacterial and eukaryotic systems within a unique framework adapted to extreme environments and diverse genome architectures. Initiation typically occurs ...

Researchers found that enzymes released when bacteriophages burst bacterial cells can continue producing DNA in biofilms, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The exponential growth of global data is outpacing conventional storage technologies, driving interest in alternative approaches. DNA offers an exceptionally high theoretical ...

Researchers at Aarhus University have discovered that bacteria can continue producing DNA after they die. And they have found ...

When a virus enters a cell, its top priority is to replicate its genome rapidly, creating new viruses to infect elsewhere. The host has the opposite priority: to destroy the virus, ideally before it ...