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New Insights into DNA Replication

DNA replication is an essential process for the propagation of life on this planet. Steve Bell’s lab has been studying this process in the hyperthermophilic microrganisms of the archaeal domain of…

Tie the Terminator Down

Bacterial termination factor Rho triggers the premature release of poorly translated and potentially harmful RNAs to maintain the transcriptome quality and silence prophages. In turn, bacteria and…

Identifying the genes that viruses ‘steal’ from ocean microbes

By: Emily Caldwell, OSU News

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don’t do the work on their…

Bacteria work together to thrive in difficult conditions

Study shows soil pH sets stage for microbial interactions, composition

by: Emily Caldwell; caldwell.151@osu.edu

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical…