Opening up about his inspiration for the upcoming animation, Smurfs director Chris Miller wanted to “honour the DNA of the original comics” with his take on the creatures.

Naturally competent bacteria are able to take up exogenous DNA and undergo genetic transformation. The transport of DNA from the extracellular milieu into the cytoplasm is a complex process, and ...

Our work indicates that methylation plays an important role in marking DNA for transformation. We have identified a highly conserved DNA methyltransferase, which we term Campylobacter transformation ...

Natural bacterial transformation involves the internalization and chromosomal integration of DNA and has now been documented in ∼80 species.

Moreover, plasmid DNA, previously incubated with LPS in CaCl2, had less ability to transform E. coli cells. The results suggest that during artificial transformation of E. coli, the naked DNA was ...