However, says geneticist Jen Sheen of Harvard Medical School, this approach runs the risk of creating additional mutations—either from the integration of the plasmid itself into the plant genome, or ...

This modified plasmid is then reinserted into the agrobacterium. The bacterium is used to insert the T-DNA, now carrying the foreign gene, into the plant cell. The plant cells are then grown in ...

there are unknown consequences to altering the natural state of an organism through foreign gene expression. After all, such alterations can change the organism's metabolism, growth rate ...

Genetic studies have made it clear that eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer can and does happen. Exactly how, though, remains speculative. For foreign DNA to make it into a eukaryotic cell’s genome, ...

This article examines viral and non-viral vectors in gene therapy, highlighting their mechanisms, advantages, and limitations ...

Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of foreign bacterial genetic material into the beetle genome, which is thought to be the result of earlier symbioses.