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.

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

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 ...

While conjugation has traditionally been associated with bacteria attaching to solid surfaces, the team investigated pLS20, a widespread conjugative plasmid in Bacilli species, which behaves ...

The study, published 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, which could ...

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 ...