Archive for October 14th, 2009

“My favorite example is the wonderfully named repressilator, created by the physicist Michael B. Elowitz and the geneticist Stanislas Leibler. This biobrick system contains three genes connected in a feedback loop in which each gene represses the next at regular intervals. The result is the biological equivalent of an electrical oscillator.”

Un ottimo articolo divulgativo di Paul McFedries che fa il punto della situazione sulla bioingegneria e sulle sue possibili applicazioni, nel bene e nel male.

Link: Hacking DNA.

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