Chromosome segregation and site-specific recombination are central processes in bacterial cell division and genome maintenance. The orchestration of these events ensures that circular chromosomes are ...

When Nat Sternberg, a molecular biologist at the Frederick Cancer Research Center, heard about bacteriophage P1, he was intrigued. Having previously worked on the head proteins of lambda (λ) phage, ...

Belgian researchers from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have developed a new toolbox of 16 different short DNA sequences that allow triggering ...