Plasmids naturally exist in bacterial cells, and they also occur in some eukaryotes. Often, the genes carried in plasmids provide bacteria with genetic advantages, such as antibiotic resistance.

Birmingham scientists have identified an essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to "displace" antibiotic-resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small, ...

Bacteria can spread resistance genes to each other through plasmids. Plasmids are small free-standing DNA rings in which ...

Birmingham scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to 'displace' antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small ...

In bacteria, mutations in plasmids can accumulate surprisingly fast. What does this mean for us humans, who have to fight with these new antibiotic resistant strains? Now, say that a few days ...

Soon after the Chinese announcement came a flurry of publications from other groups of scientists declaring that they too had found the mcr-1 gene on bacterial plasmids—in the urine of an 83 ...

One of those involves small DNA molecules in bacterial cells called plasmids, which have their own independent genome, replicate independently and carry antibiotic resistance. The international ...

coli bacteria than has ever been done before. With the aid of the latest generation of sequencing technology, they studied the complete chromosomes and plasmids present in 2000 samples from ...

Often found in bacteria, plasmids can carry genes that are useful for survival and can be engineered in the lab to introduce new genes into cells. Scientists use them as tools to study gene ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

A team of Portuguese scientists has reduced the size of helper plasmids for recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) production. The team, from Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica ...

Birmingham scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to ‘displace’ antibiotic resistance genes from bacteria. Plasmids, which are small ...