A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

finding this kind of lateral or horizontal gene transfer (HGT) wouldn’t have been so unbelievable. Almost 100 years earlier, researchers had first demonstrated that bacteria can pass one another ...

Laboratories are loading mammalian cells and tissues with exogenous DNA more routinely and more successfully than ever before. The means available to deliver the DNA--lipofection, transduction, ...

One process by which they do this is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also referred to as lateral gene transfer (LGT). In this article, we will discuss what HGT is, how it is used in research, ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

The answer lies in transferring genetic material between different species outside of sexual reproduction, an evolutionary phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer, or HGT. HGT has been reported ...