MOBILE GENES. “We all know that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a problem – maybe even ‘as big a risk as terrorism’ – but how is this resistance passed on from one bug to another? One key culprit is plasmids: these are small ‘hula hoops’ of DNA that occur naturally within the cells of bacteria (and some eukaryotes) and are completely independent of the main bacterial genome.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022