Bacterial cells often possess molecules of closed, circular DNA, otherwise known as ‘plasmids’. They can also be present at much lower frequencies in certain eukaryotic cell types, such as ...

New research from the University of Sheffield has found that bacterial plasmids readily pick up new genes and spread them to new species – something which is an increasing concern for transfer ...

Plasmids are circular double-stranded autonomously replicating DNA molecules and are probably distributed throughout the bacterial kingdom. Plasmids are generally regarded as dispensible to their host ...

Charles River explores the benefits of off-the-shelf plasmids and a standardized platform approach to expedite gene therapies.

Antibiotic-resistant plasmids flourish in hospital plumbing Date: February 6, 2018 Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary: To better understand how antibiotic-resistant organisms spread ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford report that plasmids are one of the key culprits in spreading the major global health threat of antibiotic resistance. Using an Escherichia coli ...

Researchers exploit plasmids, the small, closed circular DNA strands native to bacteria, as delivery vehicles in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing protocols. Plasmids shuttle the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing ...

Anders Norman, Lars H. Hansen, Søren J. Sørensen, Conjugative Plasmids: Vessels of the Communal Gene Pool, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 364 ...