The development of biotechnological pharmaceutics, like macro- and nanocarriers, can benefit greatly from studying their characteristics in situ using advanced fluorescence microscopy methods. While ...

Heat pretreatment could improve the RT-qPCR detectability of plasmid-borne ARGs in environmental samples by eliminating the supercoiled form of plasmids.

Research on tuberculosis and leprosy was revolutionized by the development of a plasmid transformation system in the fast-growing surrogate, Mycobacterium smegmatis. This transformation system was ...