Small RNA (sRNA) genes are expressed in all organisms, primarily as regulators of translation and message stability. We have developed comparative genomic approaches to identify sRNAs that are ...

Genomic 'islands' that evolved from viruses can be converted into 'drones' that disable Staphylococcus aureus, bacteria that are often resistant to antibiotics, a new study finds. Genomic "islands" ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 93, No. 25 (Dec. 10, 1996), pp. 14648-14653 (6 pages) cagA, a gene that codes for an immunodominant antigen, is ...

A huge tool-kit of genes allows a rogue form of a normally harmless gut bacterium to cause life-threatening infections. The finding could lead to new ways to predict, prevent or treat these infections ...

Bits of DNA that make bacteria dangerous can be co-opted to bring the microbes down instead. Pathogenicity islands are already primed for such inside jobs: The stretches of DNA naturally get bundled ...

Drones have been hyped by Amazon as the future of package delivery, but nanoscale drones called genomic islands have been shuttling genetic packages between bacteria for a long, long time.

Two DNA defense systems protect the bacterial strains responsible for the ongoing seventh cholera pandemic from potentially harmful genetic material and viruses, scientists have found. Their study ...