New method for turning genes on and off could enable more complex synthetic biology circuits

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 06:01 in Biology & Nature

MIT researchers have shown that they can turn genes on or off inside yeast and human cells by controlling when DNA is copied into messenger RNA—an advance that could allow scientists to better understand the function of those genes.

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