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Plasmid
A plasmid is a small circular piece of DNA, wholly separate from the genomic DNA, most commonly found in Bacteria and Archaea. Often encoding event-restricted genes that aid in organism survival, they can be divested if need be. Plasmids are often used in the biotech industry in order to clone recombinant proteins for expression by E. coli.
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JAN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, and this gut microbiome includes bacteria, ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
In the genome, genes that code for protein are often divided into sections called exons, which are separated by spacers
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
In a pioneering study published in Molecular Therapy, researchers from the University of Oslo have unveiled a revolution
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
APR 03, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Shigella sonnei is a leading cause of a diarrheal disease called shigellosis in high-income countries, and this bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2023
Microbiology
Scientists have found that a gene that has been previously identified in many animals and their associated microbes can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2022
Microbiology
Researchers sought to learn how dangerous drug-resistant Klebsiella, which can be found in many places, like farms, hosp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
One of the most significant consequences of climate change is the greenhouse gases generated from the microbial decompos
...
Written By:
Anusha Naganathan
NOV 14, 2022
Cancer
About 20% of breast cancers exhibit elevated levels of a protein known as HER2. You may have heard the classifier
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
OCT 26, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
If you're a Star Trek fan, you've heard of the Borg, a hive-mind that can assimilate others as they seek to take control
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 13, 2022
Cancer
Point mutations change one or very few nucleotides in DNA, but they cause an estimated 30,000 genetic diseases in humans
...
JUL 01, 2022
Cannabis Sciences
A team of University of Connecticut researchers are using firefly genes to understand molecular mechanisms involved in t
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
JUN 13, 2022
Microbiology
Carbapenem antibiotics are one of the few remaining antibiotics effective in treating ESBL infections or MDRO. Howe
...
Sponsored By:
Hardy Diagnostics Le
APR 07, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Just like humans, bacteria can be attacked by infectious pathogens, and microbes also have immune defense systems. One o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
With gene therapy demonstrating an enormous potential to treat a wide range of diseases, Cyagen has added a range of gen
...
NOV 17, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
Last week the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the biotechnology company Inovio to
...
Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
JUL 20, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotics are a standard treatment for bacterial infections, but more and more of these bacterial infections can't be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Our environment is full of DNA molecules. While researchers have become concerned about DNA waste material that's ac
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
After being identified in the 1980s, it was thought that retrons were just an odd feature of some bacterial cells. But e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 15, 2021
Microbiology
Bacteria have colonized nearly every environment on Earth, including the human body. While most of the microbes we encou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 08, 2021
Microbiology
Bacterial infections that can't be eliminated with standard drugs, caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, are consider
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2020
Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2020
Microbiology
The pathogenic bacterium that causes tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, does not multiply quickly, so researchers
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 20, 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant microbes are considered to be a major public health threat. The overuse of antibiotics is thought t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch