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  • Jan 17
    Gene transfer in plants

    Inserting genes into plants is how we get GMOs and other cool plants

  • Jan 10
    Creating a virus

    Viruses can be very useful for synthetic biology. They allow us to add DNA to larger organisms with greater certainty. In this post, I want to add my own understanding to a procedure that I found on the internet.

  • Jan 3
    DNA Extraction

    In order to learn about the genes of organisms, we must first get a purified DNA sample. This post goes over what that process looks like.

  • Dec 27
    DNA sequencing methods

    One of the driving factors behind the recent explosion in progress in synthetic biology has to do with the cost and speed of genome sequencing and synthesis. I wanted to understand more about how it actually works.

  • Dec 20
    Bioinformatics

    How computers can be effectively applied to biology

  • Dec 12
    Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC)

    BACs are useful for duplicating larger sections of DNA than can be duplicated with PCR or will fit on plasmids.

  • Dec 8
    Useful resources

    An ongoing list of useful resources

  • Dec 7
    Plasmids

    Plasmids show up everywhere, and are very useful to synthetic biologists. They are short, circular pieces of DNA that are separate from the chromosome of the cell that they inhabit.

  • Nov 27
    Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

    PCR is a common lab technique used to amplify a gene for use in further tests or steps.

  • Nov 22
    Why I'm writing a synthetic biology blog

    I found it difficult to learn programming, but never wrote down my progress. Now maybe my struggles with biology will be able to help someone else.

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