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Biotechnology is the use of biological organisms in technological processes. It is almost as old as the civilization itself, although it wasn’t called “biotechnology” until the 20th century. Far from abandoning it in the 21st century, we are developing new uses for biological organisms.
When you think of microbes what comes to mind? Moldy bread, Penicillin and antibiotics? Vaccines? Fermented food, like yogurt and kombucha? And the latest Probiotics health craze? How about antibody production for immune therapy? Maybe not so much, but you should know that the use of microbes is wide and ever growing. Now researchers are finding…
If you are regularly doing ChIP-qPCR, ChIP-RNAseq or luciferase reporter assays to measure protein-DNA interactions, then this article is for you! ChIP experiments can tell you what DNA sequences your protein binds, and luciferase reporter assays predict whether your protein functionally binds a specific promoter to activate transcription – but a yeast one-hybrid (Y1H) assay…
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