Birmingham scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to ‘displace’ antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small, circular ...

Scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to 'displace' antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria. Birmingham scientists have identified ...

Birmingham scientists have identified an essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to "displace" antibiotic-resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small ...

Birmingham scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to ‘displace’ antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small ...

John Innes Center researchers and partners used a model plasmid called RK2 that is used ... plasmids in their host and re-sensitize them to antibiotics." The study solves a decades-long conundrum ...

For example, many antibiotic-resistance genes are spread through plasmid transfer between bacteria, while bypassing numerous bacterial defense mechanisms aimed at eliminating any foreign DNA entering ...

Working in animal husbandry in the mid-1980s, he watched with growing concern the increasing use of antibiotics — both to battle infections and to fatten up the animals. While looking for ...

Mellata also noted when bacteria transfer genes, they often share the ability to resist more than one drug, so a person may have a drug resistant infection before they are even treated with any ...

Plasmid exchange usually occurs by direct physical ... plasmids are particularly good at encoding multiple resistance genes. 1) Keep the antibiotic out. Bacteria are good at keeping unwanted ...

Such genes, which encode an enzyme called a carbapenemase that degrades the antibiotic, typically reside on a piece of the genome, called a plasmid, which is smaller than the chromosome and can be ...