News tagged with synthetic gene
Biomedical engineers teach bacteria to count
May 28, 2009 |
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Biomedical engineers at Boston University have taught bacteria how to count. Professor James J. Collins and colleagues have wired a new sequence of genes that allow the microbes to count discrete events, opening the door ...
Synthetic gene circuit allows precise dosing of gene expression
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Researchers have crafted a gene circuit that permits precise tuning of a gene's expression in a cell, an advance that should allow for more accurate analysis of the gene's role in normal and abnormal cellular function.
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Study shows why synthetic estrogens wreak havoc on reproductive system
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine now have a clearer understanding of why synthetic estrogens such as those found in many widely-used plastics have a detrimental effect on a developing fetus, cause fertility problems, ...
Safer, more effective gene therapy
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Athens, Ga. – The potential of gene therapy has long been hampered by the risks associated with using viruses as vectors to deliver healthy genes, but a new University of Georgia study helps bring scientists closer to a safe ...
Finding the constant in bacterial communication
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The Rosetta Stone of bacterial communication may have been found.
Engineers build first-ever multi-input 'plug-and-play' synthetic RNA device
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Engineers from the California Institute of Technology have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one ...
Simulated gene therapy
Apr 29, 2009 |
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In a recent issue of The Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe the fi ...
In blood vessel stents, innovative materials allow better control, delivery of gene therapy
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Before gene therapy becomes practical for treating human diseases, researchers must master the details of safe and effective delivery. Cardiology researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have advanced delivery ...
Greatest thing since sliced bread: New data offer important clues toward improving wheat yields
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Breed a better crop of wheat? That's exactly what a team of researchers from Kansas State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture hope their research will lead to. In their study, appearing in the March 2009 issue ...
Scientists Create New Robust Genetic Clock
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells. The clock's blink rate c ...
Synthetic Capsules Made of Natural Building Blocks
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The basis of all life forms are vesicles: membrane-enclosed, liquid-filled “bubbles” made of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Cells, which are separated from the surrounding medium by their cell membrane, ...
Researchers identify new targets for RNAs that regulate genes
Jul 06, 2008 |
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Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that drives all biology and that scientists seek to control ...
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