Glowing Pig Passes Genes to Piglets

DanyC submitted, created time 11 months 4 weeks (news.nationalgeographic.com)

A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.
Besides,Tokyo's Meiji University last year successfully cloned a transgenic pig that carries the genes for human diabetes, while South Korean scientists cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays—an achievement they said could help develop cures for human genetic diseases

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Single-molecule and ensemble fluorescence assays for a functionally important conformational change in T7 DNA polymerase

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.pnas.org)

We report fluorescence assays for a functionally important conformational change in bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase (T7 pol) that use the environmental sensitivity of a Cy3 dye attached to a DNA substrate.

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