To adapt to changing environmental pressures, bacteria have developed various methods that allow them to uptake exogenous DNA and incorporate it into their own genomes. One of these processes is ...

Conjugation has classically been considered a bacterium-to-bacterium DNA transfer driven by the donor cell and is typically plasmid-encoded. Theoretically it is possible that any type of cell can ...

Figure 1: Stereo view of electron density maps around residues 152–156 (on strand β4) with the final 2.0 Å refined model superimposed. Our model assumes that the conformation of FinO does not change ...

Those of you who made it through a high school biology class where evolution was discussed undoubtedly were introduced to the idea of geographic isolation. Keep two populations of a single species ...

BOSTON & ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Omniose, a company developing polysaccharide conjugate vaccines against serious bacterial threats, announced today the expansion of the leadership team to include ...

ZURICH-SCHLIEREN, Switzerland, Dec. 19, 2012 -- GlycoVaxyn AG, a leader in the development of innovative vaccines, today announced a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK) to develop new ...