To do this, they have evolved methods for importing DNA from elsewhere and utilizing it for their own purposes, transformation being one such method. In this article, we will discuss transformation, ...

Introducing this composite into a bacterial host cell allows the segment to be replicated thousands or even millions of times in a collective process known as recombinant DNA technology.

Fifteen years later, a trio of researchers at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, demonstrated that this ...

An INRS research team has identified a new family of enzymes that can make precise cuts in single-stranded DNA. A few years ...

In the pursuit of understanding the pathogenic expression mechanisms of bacteria and the advancements in biofoundry ...

A Kobe University team was able to edit the DNA of Lactobacillus strains directly without a template from other organisms.

In 1982 Food and Drug Administration approved Humulin, Eli Lily’s recombinant insulin made from Genentech’s specially modified bacteria. It was the first drug produced through recombinant DNA ...

This plasmid can be introduced into a bacterium by way of the process called transformation. Then, because bacteria divide rapidly, they can be used as factories to copy DNA fragments in large ...

Undergraduates in the lab will take part in activities to develop and refine standard operation procedures related to bacterial culture, genomic DNA isolation, sequencing library construction and DNA ...

A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a derivative of the immune system of bacteria, CRISPR enables double strands ...