All Rodolphe Barrangou articles

  • New CRISPR-Cas system
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    New CRISPRs expand upon the original’s abilities

    2025-03-17T16:19:00Z

    By scouring through a massive bacterial metagenomic databases, researchers have discovered new CRISPR-Cas systems as efficient as the conventional one. One of the candidate system has found with the technological potential to expand its impact in research, biotechnology and medicine.

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    Cocktail of bile salt hydrolases can stop C diff in its tracks

    2023-03-13T16:00:00Z

    Researchers have found that bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) can restrict Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.) colonization by both altering existing bile acids and by creating a new class of bile acids within the gut’s microbial environment. 

  • E coli
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    Viruses deploy CRISPR system to thwart bacterial defences

    2022-11-08T16:18:00Z

    Researchers have shown that viruses engineered with a CRISPR-Cas system can thwart bacterial defenses and make selective changes to a targeted bacterium – even when other bacteria are in close proximity.