Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a ...

Molecular biology is an ever-changing field, and most significant developments have happened because of changes in plasmid DNA sequencing. A plasmid, a circular and small double-stranded DNA entity ...

Plasmid DNA isolation is an essential molecular biology technique, however, high-throughput automation of the method has proved challenging.

Conjugation has classically been considered a bacterium-to-bacterium DNA transfer driven by the donor cell and is typically plasmid-encoded. Theoretically it is possible that any type of cell can ...

A new study's disconcerting findings reveal how antibiotic resistance is able to spread between bacteria cells despite the presence of antibiotics that should prevent them from growing.

They did this by creating a plasmid, which is a circular strand of DNA, that was a mixture of natural and artificial DNA elements made of molecules known as d5SICS and dNaM, and then inserting it ...

Microalgae Lead to Breakthrough In the new study, the team synthesized a stretch of circular DNA known as a plasmid and inserted it into cells of the common bacterium E. coli.

Rice University scientists have found a way to make single-celled bacteria behave like stem cells, differentiating into genetically unique individuals as they divide.

The genes that these bacteria need for infection are located on a circular extra chromosome, called the virulence plasmid.