Critics of agricultural biotechnology have often been dismissed as modern-day Luddites. However, these critics have an understandable concern, based on a detail of the technology that has been ...

Industrial wastewater from oil refineries and sites polluted by oil spills usually contains complex mixtures of organic ...

This horizontal gene transfer, which involves the movement of genetic material between unrelated species, played a critical role in the plants’ ability to survive outside of water. The gene ...

and enhance bacterial fitness by mediating horizontal gene transfer. Controlled phage outbreaks could potentially encourage the spread of beneficial activities, or be used to deplete resident ...

Commensal populations may therefore act as reservoirs for resistance traits that could transfer to pathogenic bacteria through horizontal gene transfer beyond the interaction with antibiotics.

encouraging the spread of antimicrobial resistance across bacterial species through horizontal gene transfer despite deep cleaning practices. It is paramount that new technologies such as this ...

A bacteria killing coating created by scientists has been used in trials of a new paint that can be applied to a range of surfaces to effectively kill bacteria and viruses, including difficult to kill ...

encouraging the spread of antimicrobial resistance across bacterial species through horizontal gene transfer despite deep cleaning practices. "It is paramount that new technologies such as this ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

To see the previous version neoHGT1, you may find it here. neoHGT can predict the horizontal/lateral gene transfer (HGT) for species of interest. This open-source project is based on HGTector ...