Bacterial transformation was discovered in Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) by Frederick Griffith in 1928.3 He was conducting vaccination experiments in mice with S. pneumoniae bacteria and ...

The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), is an important molecular biology method used for the analysis of bacteria itself as well as for the storage ...

The work also advances understanding of how bacteria take up DNA from their surroundings, which is called natural transformation.

Plasmid DNA isolation from bacterial cells is an often-repeated task. Automating this process reduces errors and increases lab throughput.

A cell-free transcription-translation pipeline for recreating methylation patterns boosts DNA transformation in bacteria. Molecular Cell, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.06.003 ...

Bacteria and Humans Have Been Swapping DNA for Millennia Bacteria inhabit most tissues in the human body, and genes from some of these microbes have made their way to the human genome. Could this ...

Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a promising platform for development of a new genome-editing method.

The team's latest study, presented in the June 1 issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, finds that DNA is a critical food source in the battle of the fittest. Bacteria that stay alive just a little ...

If scientists can see how bacteria evolves, they might be able to intervene to prevent drug resistance. Now researchers at Indiana University have produced the first direct images of bacteria ...

To do this, they have evolved methods for importing DNA from elsewhere and utilizing it for their own purposes, transformation being one such method. In this article, we will discuss transformation, ...