Blue light enables genes to turn on

Friday, June 24, 2011 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

(Medical Xpress) -- With a combination of synthetic biology and optogenetics, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology published a paper in Science outlining their new technique which enables certain genes to be turned on simply by the switch of a light.

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