The naturally transformable bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae is able to take up extracellular DNA and incorporate it into its genome. Maintaining natural transformation within a species requires ...
Searches were carried out in the Medline, Embase and PubMed databases in July 2014 with a date range, 1960-2013. Observational cohort studies (either prospective or retrospective) were included.
The National Institutes of Health is launching a new program, the Common Fund’s Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Network, that aims to transform our knowledge of how much genetic ...