DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an
increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both …

Bacterial conjugation, also referred to as bacterial sex, is a major horizontal gene transfer
mechanism through which DNA is transferred from a donor to a recipient bacterium by direct …

Genome editing technologies based on DNA-dependent polymerases (DDPs) could offer
several benefits compared with other types of editors to install diverse edits. Here, we …

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) breakout had an unimaginable worldwide effect in the
21st century, claiming millions of lives and putting a huge burden on the global economy …

Abstract Prokaryotic Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) such as transposons, integrons,
phages and plasmids, play important roles in prokaryotic evolution and in the dispersal of …

Abstract SMART (Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool) is a web resource
(https://smart. embl. de) for the identification and annotation of protein domains and the …

Viruses are ubiquitous parasites of cellular life and the most abundant biological entities on
Earth. It is widely accepted that viruses are polyphyletic, but a consensus scenario for their …

Insertion sequences are compact and pervasive transposable elements found in bacteria,
which encode only the genes necessary for their mobilization and maintenance. IS200-and …

Viruses and other selfish genetic elements are dominant entities in the biosphere, with
respect to both physical abundance and genetic diversity. Various selfish elements …