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PCR and Synthetic BiologyWhen asked about the origins of synthetic biology, the most primitive, and first commercially expoited, example that comes to my mind is the construction of oligonucleotides for PCR. Oligo means short or small, and short-chains of nucleotides (DNA or RNA fragments) have become important tools in ... |
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H1N1: What are the Real Risks?Travelling during a global pandemic is a risky business! I just got back from a trip to another province of Canada, a four hour flight away. While Ontario is handing out Swine Flu vaccine to the "priority groups" - small children, seniors and health-care workers, BC is facing a shorta... |
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Geron Corporation's Stem Cell TrialGeron Corporation is a company based in Menlo Park, CA and the first biotech company in the USA to be granted permission for a clinical trial of regenerative medicine using embryonic stem cells, in humans. While permission was granted in January 2009, the trials were put on hold until last Frida... |
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Is a Bio-Based Economy a Fantasy?Among those who work in biotechnology, there are three main areas of study: Biomedical, industrial, and environmental biotechnology. In just 15 years since PCR and gene cloning became a part of mainstream biotech research, industrial applications for the products of enzyme technology and GMOs hav... |
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Synthetic Biology and Artificial SystemsSynthetic biology has been defined as the creation of artificial life forms, but, in reality, is more often exemplified in the creation of synthetic (man-made) building blocks of lifeforms, such as ribosomes, tissues and proteins and their ligands, that can be added together to create, or enhance... |
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Using Systems Biology to Study InfluenzaSystems biology is the study of how individual molecular components in a cell interact with each other to create active biological systems. This "grand scale" study of things generates information on the relationships between the structure and function of macromolecules (such as protein... |
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