If by "recently" you mean 1946, then yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation Unless you m

If by "recently" you mean 1946, then yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation Unless you mean across species, in which case there are new and interesting ways that bacteria can swap genetic elements across species boundaries being discovered all the time. The first example was the original Griffith experiment in 1928, but the wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_competence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_competence has a nice timeline of some of the more recent examples as well.