Molecular biology is an ever-changing field, and most significant developments have happened because of changes in plasmid DNA sequencing. A plasmid, a circular and small double-stranded DNA entity ...

There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract, and this gut microbiome includes bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi. Scientists have now found that a mysterious plasmid, ...

A component of the human intestinal flora that has been little studied to date is the focus of a new study. Plasmids are small extrachromosomal genetic elements that frequently occur in bacterial ...