Before we understood that DNA was the genetic code, scientists knew that bacteria transferred it between cells. In 1928 ... demonstrated that this transformation was mediated by DNA. Even dead ...

Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some ... introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they ...

Prokaryotes, which include bacteria and single-celled microorganisms called Archaea, usually pass their chromosomal DNA on to their offspring asexually. In other words, a bacterial cell reproduces ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...

For example, bacteria have a rigid cell wall, whereas human cells are surrounded only by a simple membrane. If a pharmaceutical agent targets cell wall construction, only bacterial cells are affected.

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune ... In the study, the researchers found that E. gallinarum induces the transformation of Th17 cells in the spleen and blood, which then push ...