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 has uncovered how the defense mechanisms of bacteria can be neutralized, facilitating more efficient genetic ...

A new study by Tel Aviv University reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms can be neutralized, enabling the efficient ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created nanostructured alumina surfaces which are strongly antibacterial but can be used to culture cells. They found that anodic porous alumina ...

Plasmid vectors can be used to clone ... which is capable of infecting bacterial cells and using them as hosts to produce more viruses. As the first step, a bacteriophage injects its DNA into ...

Watanabe and a colleague, Toshio Fukasawa, offered a hypothesis: It was an episome, a sort of autonomous genetic element that floats free within a bacterial cell, unattached to the cell’s single ...

New nanostructured alumina surfaces offer unprecedented antibacterial resistance, fostering safer cell culture environments ...

To do that, they developed a polymer coating that integrates with the bacterial cell membrane and chemically modified cell membranes with the catalytic polymers. “We took a common industrial ...

The most common used applications for plasmids within the Biopharmaceutical space are bacterial vector ... automated solution for plasmid purification in Maxi, Mega and Giga scales. The various scales ...

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 ...