“Wild stuff does happen.” The trillions of bacteria in our bodies regularly exchange DNA with each other, but the idea that their genes could end up in human DNA has been very controversial. In 2001, ...

Today, scientists know that the Okazaki fragments of bacterial DNA are typically between 1,000 and 2,000 nucleotides long, whereas in eukaryotic cells, they are only about 100 to 200 nucleotides long.

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process ...

“Relatively minor alterations in the DNA extraction procedure or in the bioinformatics ... which grappled with unwanted ‘blooms’ of bacteria that flourished because of the way the fecal ...