In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might ...

The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Because the β-galactosidase activity of exponentially growing cells is at steady state, the corresponding β-galactosidase synthesis rate is ...

New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes of ...

Bacterial genetics is based on the ability to select for rare mutants among large populations (1 in >10 10) on the basis of the ability of the bacteria to survive lethal challenges, grow in the ...