PhD student biochemistry and biophysics. Texas A&M University
Recently it has been announced that Ilumina has released a new kind of sequencer that will allow the price of sequencing a genome from a 1000$ to a 100$ in the near future. But why should I care? Why is it important to sequence my genome? Well, your genome consists of all the DNA…
Telomeres are repeated DNA sequences which are found at the end of the chromosomes. To explain how important telomeres are an analogy between telomeres and the tip of a shoe laze, the aglet, can be made. If you remove the aglet, the whole shoe laze basically falls apart. The same with telomeres, as they get…
CRISPR is the bacterial immune system in which the bacteria is able to integrate the viral DNA in its genome, and then use it against that specific virus when the bacteria is attacked. This specific immune system is conformed of the guide RNA (gRNA), integrated from the virus, and a protein called Cas9. The gRNA…