Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

A plasmid is a small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecule that is distinct from a cell's chromosomal DNA. Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some eukaryotes.

A new study from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on how bacterial motion influences ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Open Benchmarking of CycloneSeq™ for Complete Bacterial GenomesBenchmark Data and Analysis of New CycloneSEQ Using Novel Nanopore Sequencing ...

A plasmid is a small, circular piece of DNA that exists independently of a cell's main chromosomes. Often found in bacteria, plasmids can carry genes that are useful for survival and can be ...

into dangerous bacteria such as Shigella dysenteriae, in a blink. The word “episome” would later be replaced by a synonym, “plasmid.” Scientists now recognize plasmids as a major mechanism ...

The study, published today (3 April) in Nature Communications, also uncovered a plasmid found in multiple strains of E. coli that allows them to produce a toxin to kill other closely related bacteria, ...

Initially, the agrobacterium cell contains a bacterial chromosome and a Tumor-inducing plasmid (Ti plasmid). The Ti plasmid is removed from the agrobacterium cell, and a restriction enzyme cleaves the ...