Multicopy plasmids are widespread in nature and compose a common strategy for spreading beneficial traits across microbes. However, the role of plasmids in supporting the evolution of encoded genes ...
Researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have opened a new window into understanding the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The work not only reveals principles ...
The rapid emergence of multidrug-resistant virulent bacteria poses a global health concern. It is enabled through the lateral transfer of plasmid-carrying antibiotic resistance and virulence genes ...
Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring. Some are mobile and can also jump to other species, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen ...
Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring. Some are mobile and can also jump to other species, as ...
An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to build resistance to drugs. Bacteria have multiple defence ...
Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF group institution—and their colleagues from the U.S. and China have explained how the ...
Plasmid DNA (pDNA) constructs are used for a number of key applications, including gene therapy and mRNA. Manufacturing plasmids is therefore a crucial part of biotechnology. A good manufacturing ...