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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

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However, they plod along as they clone plasmids—the loops of DNA that biologists use to manipulate and study organisms—because propagating them relies, in part, on the pace at which cells grow and divide. Most medicines, including insulin and semaglutide (the weight loss drug), are made using DNA cloning. However, E.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

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Even after a half-century of molecular biology research, scientists didn’t know until recently how gas vesicles physically trap gas while occluding water. For more than a century, scientists thought of gas vesicles as little more than a natural curiosity and, later, as a way for microbes to regulate buoyancy. megaterium.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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.” Foundations Basics of Synthetic Biology →Foundations for engineering biology , by Endy D. Link →A brief history of synthetic biology , by Cameron D.E. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2014). Link Synthetic biology: applications come of age , by Khalil A.S. & PLoS Biology (2017).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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.” Foundations Basics of Synthetic Biology →Foundations for engineering biology , by Endy D. Link →A brief history of synthetic biology , by Cameron D.E. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2014). Link Synthetic biology: applications come of age , by Khalil A.S. & PLoS Biology (2017).

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