Horizontal gene transfer can be achieved by several mechanisms, and it relies on genetic vectors. Viruses (called bacteriophages or phages, which infect bacteria) are one example of such a vector; ...

VectorBuilder, a global leader in gene delivery technologies and CDMO services, today announced the publication of the miniVec plasmid system, engineered for safer, more efficient, and more scalable ...

Some plasmids have been found to carry genes that kill their bacterial hosts after loss of the plasmid by vegetative segregation. This behavior appears at first to be purely spiteful because it does ...

Classical fluctuation and scattering theory has enabled the study of equilibrium properties such as molecular mass, size and intermolecular interactions of synthetic and biological macromolecules.