Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new way of modeling how potentially beneficial packages of DNA called plasmids can circulate and accumulate through a complex environment that includes many bacterial species. The work has also allowed the team to develop a new factor dubbed the ‘persistence potential’ that, once measured and computed, can predict whether or not a plasmid will continue to thrive in a given population or gradually fade into oblivion.
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