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

A plasmid, a circular and small double-stranded DNA entity that replicates independently in bacterial cells, is at the centre of this development. This plasmid vector is important for transferring ...

Results and Discussion. To realize a good yield from plasmid DNA isolation, it is vital to grow bacteria cells perfectly before attempting the method.Here, a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach ...

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. The plasmid DNA contained natural T-A and C-G base ...

Touchlight’s proprietary DNA manufacturing platform enables scalable DNA production in weeks, rather than the months taken to make plasmid DNA using traditional E. coli fermentation methods.

When the microbiologist Jillian Banfield and her colleagues started combing through samples of mud from wetland environments three years ago, they had a specific goal in mind: to recover and analyze ...

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 ...

Shortly after the plasmid-encoded genes were transferred, TetA, a protein that mediates tetracycline resistance, was rapidly produced in the recipient bacterium.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have produced a living bacterium that has a strand of artificial DNA made with chemical “letters” not found in nature or any ...

Results and discussion. If a good yield from plasmid DNA isolation is to be achieved, it is essential that bacteria cells are optimally grown before the method is run. This study employed a Design ...