Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...
A single protein bolted to the inner membrane of a bacterial cell can shred a virus’s DNA before that genetic material ever ...
Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it ...
DNA phosphorothioate modification is a distinctive epigenetic alteration in which a non‐bridging oxygen atom within the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by ...