The National Center for Biotechnology Information website is one of my favorite websites (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). It can be used for many things. You can look up articles in various databases such as PubMed and PubChem. You can mine the genome using a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) search, and you can get information about how…
How To Make Glowing Bacteria – Bacterial Genetics – Transformation
The bacterial transfer of genetic material requires either a small fragment of DNA or a plasmid. Plasmids are small DNA molecules that replicate on their own in the bacterial cell. They are used in recombinant DNA technology for many reasons. One reason why they are used is to produce large amounts of needed proteins such…
Glowing Monkies!
Have you heard about those adorable glowing marmosets that scientists created using genetic engineering techniques?:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2009/05/27/124843/glowing-monkeys-inherit-jellyfish-genes/amp/ It says that they spliced jellyfish genes into common marmosets to study neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. These two tragic illnesses hinder people’s ability to control their muscle movements. Who would have thought…
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