Tag Archive for 'Listeria'

Li et al. systematically examined horizontal gene transfer in 218 high-quality genomes of diverse insects and found that they acquired 1,410 genes exhibiting diverse functions, including many not previously reported, via 741 distinct transfers from non-metazoan donors. Image credit: Li et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.014.

Insects Carry 1,410 Horizontally-Transferred Microbial Genes: Study

Jul 19, 2022 by News Staff

In new research, a team of scientists from Zhejiang University and Vanderbilt University examined horizontal gene transfer — an important evolutionary...

Listeria cossartiae is named for Pascale Cossart, a bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris. Image credit: Catharine Carlin, Cornell University.

Five New Species of Listeria Bacteria Discovered

May 24, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of microbiologists from Cornell University has isolated five new non-pathogenic species of Listeria soil samples from an agricultural water sample...

Four newly identified CRISPR-Cas9 inhibitor proteins encoded by Listeria monocytogenes prophages prevent Cas9 binding and gene editing in bacteria and human cells, including currently the most widely used Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes. Image credit: Benjamin J. Rauch et al, doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.009.

Researchers Discover Off-Switch for CRISPR-Cas9 System

Jan 3, 2017 by News Staff

A team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, has discovered a way to inactivate the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system using newly...