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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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New synthetic origin of replication lets multiple plasmids coexist in one bacterial cell
"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

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