Safety and ethics of DNA technology
Agencies and governments have been placed regulations in order to govern how biotechnology can be…
Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology
Practical applications of DNA technology: medical applications, human gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, forensic evidence, environmental cleanup, agriculture
Biotechnology is a rapidly developing field that has evolved techniques for improving fields such as…
Stem cells
Stem cells are unspecialized cells with the unique ability to develop into any type of…
Determining gene function
The sequencing of genomes has discovered many different genes and there are methods used to…
Analyzing gene expression
Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used to be…
DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing is the process of determining a nucleic acid sequence in a piece of…
Gel electrophoresis and Southern blotting
Gel Electrophoresis and Southern blotting are techniques used to characterize DNA samples. Gel electrophoresis allows…
Polymerase chain reaction
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a technique used to amplify specific regions of DNA for…
Expressing cloned genes
Expressing cloned genes in host cells to get their protein products requires careful selection of…
Hybridization
Hybridization is the double-strand formation (or annealing) between two different single strands of DNA or…