Antibiotic resistance is widely recognized as one of the most urgent public health challenges of the twenty first century.

Antibiotic resistance is widely recognized as one of the most urgent public health challenges of the twenty first century.

May 2, 2012 — Gene transfer using a retroviral vector that directs a patient's T cells to recognize HIV appears to be safe and persistent, according to a study published May 2 in Science Translational ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

For this analysis, investigators used metagenomic sequencing files from the Gut Bugs trial, a placebo-controlled multidonor fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) trial conducted among adolescents ...

A fundamental challenge for cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy is ensuring sufficient transduction of airway epithelial cells to achieve therapeutic correction. Vehicles such as lysophosphatidylcholine ...

Fred Hutch bioengineer Dr. Matthias Stephan is working to develop a special foam that could help make gene therapy for blood ...

A team led by Tappei Mishina at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered that parasites manipulate their hosts using stolen genes that they likely acquired through a ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of a genome. There is an increasing body of evidence for ...

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart problems, like heart attacks and heart failure, the heart muscles become ...