Dokland’s study, “Shape shifter: redirection of prolate phage capsid assembly by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands” was published in Nature Communications. Dokland said that Bacteriophages or ...

Genomic 'islands' that evolved from viruses can be converted into 'drones' that disable Staphylococcus aureus, bacteria that are often resistant to antibiotics, a new study finds. Genomic "islands" ...

Bits of DNA that make bacteria dangerous can be co-opted to bring the microbes down instead. Pathogenicity islands are already primed for such inside jobs: The stretches of DNA naturally get bundled ...

Drones have been hyped by Amazon as the future of package delivery, but nanoscale drones called genomic islands have been shuttling genetic packages between bacteria for a long, long time.

A huge tool-kit of genes allows a rogue form of a normally harmless gut bacterium to cause life-threatening infections. The finding could lead to new ways to predict, prevent or treat these infections ...

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.