How to Use plasmid in a Sentence

plasmid

noun

• That means that Buri's genome contains the entire DNA sequence of the plasmid.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2019
• The second portion of the vaccine is a concentrated dose of DNA strands, called a plasmid, that finds its way into cells.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020
• In the case of Covid-19, spike proteins are this key information that the plasmid vaccine wants to deliver to the nucleus of a cell.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 Aug. 2021
• At the end of the process, scientists kill and break open the cells, using a purification process that takes about a week and a half to strain out a ring of DNA, called a plasmid, that codes for the spike protein.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Passing off the plasmid only took a few minutes, the researchers report Thursday in the journal Science.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2019
• The cells are subjected to electrical pulses that briefly open holes in their outer membranes, allowing the plasmids to flow in.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• But compared to modern African strains, the medieval strain is missing copies of six loci, mostly at a particular site on some plasmids.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• In only three days over 100 plasmid requests had been distributed by Addgene!
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 6 Nov. 2019
• Once the plasmid is made, purified, and tested, the double-helix structure of the DNA has to be linearized—literally, made linear.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2021
• To obtain appropriate plasmids the foundry’s customers may simply order parts from the library.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• In hindsight, Sonstegard says his team’s only mistake was not properly screening for the plasmid to begin with.
  — Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2020
• The genes that code for the antigen variants are stored on several plasmids, strands of DNA that can replicate or move around separately from the bacteria's chromosome.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• And when bacteria have acquired resistance to multiple drugs through plasmids, using any of those drugs can increase the spread of all of those resistance factors.
  — Uig Via Getty Images, National Geographic, 11 July 2016
• Each plasmid contains a coronavirus gene, the genetic instructions for a human cell to build coronavirus proteins and trigger an immune response to the virus.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• Recombinetics has since insisted that the leftover plasmid DNA was likely harmless and stressed that this sort of genetic slip-up is not uncommon.
  — Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2020
• The applications for producing large amounts of plasmid DNA are enormous for biopharma and other industries.
  — John Cumbers, Forbes, 6 July 2021
• The researchers found that S. typhi had gained more resistance genes by acquiring a plasmid, a circular piece of DNA, from another bacterium (a process known as horizontal gene transfer).
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• So the team instead engineered a plasmid that makes E. coli construct shorter protein fragments that are structured to spontaneously link together inside the bacterium.
  — Connie Chang, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
• And the bacterial bits included a few genes for antibiotic resistance commonly found in plasmids.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
• When the plasmid in question contains drug-resistant genes, the gonorrheal bacteria acquiring it become resistant to antibiotics, too.
  — Aneri Pattani, New York Times, 31 July 2017
• That included plasmids — little cassette-like pieces of genetic material that different species of bacteria can swap.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 16 May 2017
• The genes comprising a potential circuit are then assembled into circular DNA molecules called plasmids.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Researchers often create custom plasmids to give bacteria special abilities, like the power to resist antibiotics or a recipe for proteins that no bug would ordinarily produce.
  — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2008
• Worse, the antibiotic-resistant DNA can be carried in little cassettes of genetic material called plasmids that bacteria can slip in their entirety to one another and to other species of bacteria.
  — NBC News, 3 Apr. 2018
• Inovio's technology uses a brief electrical pulse to deliver plasmids, or small pieces of genetic information, into human cells.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 27 May 2020

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024