The Role of AI in Gene Technology
by Akshara Sankar DNA analysis [1] Genome editing is a discovery that is as delicate as it is powerful. It has long been a topic of controversy, speculation, and despite …
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Tissue Engineering, Organoids and Genetic Diseases
by Aanya Tashfeen Organoid technology can arguably be considered a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering and stem cell research. An organoid is a three-dimensional culture of organ progenitor cells or …
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Stefan Taubert – Day in the Life Of a Geneticist
by Ideja Bajra Dr. Stefan Taubert is an Associate Professor, scientist (Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics), and Investigator (BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute). He obtained his PhD from the …
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RNAi Mechanism and Applications
by Lucy Chen Introduction Humans are highly complex, multicellular organisms with millions of cells specialised for particular functions via distinct morphologies and chemistry. The process by which various cell types …
Martha Chase: The Underappreciated Geneticist
by Omodolapo Bolinda Martha Chase was an American geneticist. In 1952, during the “Hershey-Chase Experiments,” she accompanied Alfred Hershey, helping to experimentally confirm that DNA, not protein, is the genetic …
Influenza
by Simone Khandpekar Each year, there is a vaccine that is distributed for influenza, more commonly known as the flu. Influenza is a zoonosis, which means that it’s a virus …
How the Genome Proves That SARS-Cov-2 Arose Naturally
by Abigail Brooke The claims that the novel coronavirus causing the current pandemic was engineered in a lab and perhaps even deliberately released have been all over the internet. However, …
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A Question in Xenobiology: Is all Life Similar?
Introduction If you know simple biology, you know that all life on Earth has genetic information: both DNA and RNA. Following this line of logic, it is plausible to think …
The Genetics of Bird Migration
Introduction People have always noticed the effects of migration even if they were unaware of the cause. Rock art with drawings of the birds have survived and there are …
CRISPR CAS-9: How a biological enigma lead to today’s most widely used gene editing technology
It started out as an oddity. A sequence of viral DNA in the genome of a bacteria, as out of place as a bull in a china shop. A curious …