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New synthetic origin of replication lets multiple plasmids coexist in one bacterial cell
- March 26, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes an innovation in plasmids, circular pieces of DNA that have been a workhorse of molecular biology research since the 1970s.
Originally published at Phys.org