This article is based on a poster originally authored by ACROBiosystems. Plasmid DNA (pDNA) is widely used in various clinical, commercial, and research and development bioprocessing applications, ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

The outbreak is believed to have been linked to Chipotle restaurants. — -- As the E. coli outbreak believed to be linked to West Coast Chipotle restaurants grows, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

In September 1970, Janet Mertz joined the biochemistry department at Stanford University. She was one of only six new graduate students in the department and the first female one admitted in nine ...

Researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a potential therapeutic target in cancer. Every day, billions of cells in your body ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...