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Full-Text Articles in Life Sciences
Water. New Waters And New Life, Juan Enriquez
Water. New Waters And New Life, Juan Enriquez
New England Journal of Public Policy
An excerpt from an article about life sciences taken from the proceedings of the Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium held at Tufts University in Massachusetts in February 2005 is presented.
Dna-Templated Nanomaterials, Hector Alejandro Becerril-Garcia
Dna-Templated Nanomaterials, Hector Alejandro Becerril-Garcia
Theses and Dissertations
Nanomaterials display interesting physical and chemical properties depending on their shape, size and composition. Self assembly is an intriguing route to producing nanomaterials with controllable compositions and morphologies. DNA has been used to guide the self assembly of materials, resulting in: (1) metal nanowires; (2) metal or semiconductor nanorods; (3) carbon nanotubes; and (4) semiconductor, metal or biological nanoparticles. My work expands the range of DNA templated nanomaterials and develops novel ways of using DNA to pattern nanostructures on surfaces. I have performed the first synthesis of silver nanorods on single stranded DNA, an attractive material for localizing DNA coupled …
Beta-Lactamase: An Ideal Reporter System For Monitoring Gene Expression In Live Eukaryotic Cells, Sohail A. Qureshi
Beta-Lactamase: An Ideal Reporter System For Monitoring Gene Expression In Live Eukaryotic Cells, Sohail A. Qureshi
Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
To gain insightful information about the mechanisms through which genes are activated and repressed requires gene reporter systems that are sensitive, robust, and cost-effective. Although numerous reporter gene technologies are commercially available, none are as sophisticated and user-friendly as beta-lactamase (BLA) when it comes to studying gene expression in live cells. This article presents an overview of the BLA technology and describes how it can be exploited for studying rare events such as homologous recombination in somatic cells and be used to deliver any DNA sequence of choice anywhere within the genome.