Bacterial transformation is the stable genetic modification of bacteria with foreign DNA. It is a routine procedure in molecular biology, most commonly practiced as the introduction of a DNA plasmid ...

James Fraser, PhD, delivers the 2020 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science, a talk titled “A Song of Ice and Fire: Visualizing Macromolecules Using Cold Electrons and Hot X-Rays.” Photo by Sonya Yruel ...

This Review discusses natural bacterial transformation, highlighting the common and divergent features that exist in a phylogenetically diverse range of naturally transformable species. Transformation ...

The Bio-Rad pGLO bacterial transformation kit is commonly used to demonstrate this form of genetic exchange, which occurs in bacteria and eukaryotes and which differs fundamentally from transduction ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 69, No. 8 (Aug., 1972), pp. 2110-2114 (5 pages) Transformation of E. coli cells treated with CaCl 2 to multiple ...