When a bacterium divides, all of the plasmids contained within the cell are copied such that each daughter cell receives a copy of each plasmid. Bacteria can also transfer plasmids to one another ...

coli donor bacteria, which then transferred their ... single experiment and could be extended to study the dynamics of ...

A new study from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds light on how bacterial motion influences ...

In this article, we will discuss transformation, bacterial transformation in particular ... Are DNA transformation and plasmid transformation the same? DNA transformation and plasmid transformation ...

Genome sequencing reveals that such horizontal transfer ... bacteria such as Shigella dysenteriae, in a blink. The word “episome” would later be replaced by a synonym, “plasmid.” ...

Initially, the agrobacterium cell contains a bacterial chromosome and a Tumor-inducing plasmid (Ti plasmid). The Ti plasmid is removed from the agrobacterium cell, and a restriction enzyme cleaves the ...

These techniques enable the transfer of genes from one organism to another ... Initially, the agrobacterium cell contains a bacterial chromosome and a Tumor-inducing plasmid (Ti plasmid). The Ti ...

Bacteria are able to transfer genetic material ... Sanger Institute researchers and their collaborators used long-read sequencing to create 4,485 plasmid genomes from over 2,000 E. coli bloodstream ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that bacterial movement plays a central role in the transfer of antibiotic resistance ...