Unusual HIV-Vaccine perplexes Scientists
Scared from the escalating HIV pandemia with 25 million dead people since 1981? Here’s a flicker of hope: a HIV vaccine phase III study performed in Thailand this year is yielding promising results while reducing the infection rate with 31% effectiveness.
31 percent, that’s not rip-roaring, but at least it’s a beginning. Rather stunning, however, is […]
The oldest DNA ever found?
Genes ordered at your friendly Mr Gene’s store are as fresh as can be (a point of honour, of course!). That freshness, however, isn’t really the case with the “dirt DNA” that has been digged up by Danish biologist Eske Willerslev.
Willerslev, the head of the “Ancient DNA and Evolution” lab, is a professor at the […]
Spitting and popping genes
Did you ever toy with the idea of having your own DNA analysed? You didn’t? Well, 25-year-old reporter girl Boonsri Dickinson from the NYC-based Discover magazine did.
Dickinson spat and popped, then she sent, ugh!, saliva and cheek cells by mail and subsequently was disclosed frightening things.
DNA testing isn’t no more bloody expensive. There are a […]
DNA damaged by sports?
Does anybody fancy sports? No? That’s no surprise at all. Nearly daily doping disclosures cast a damning light on high performance activities and their morbid background. Well, it seems that taking part in the Tour de France is unthinkable without bringing along suitcases full of EPO, hGH and Insulin. Actually, most of our healthy and […]
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High GC content gene synthesis
This success story was provided by the group of Prof. Dr. Bechthold (Pharmaceutical Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg)
This synthetic gene was prepared by Mr Gene while other companies refused to synthesize the gene due to a very high GC content.
Order submitted: March 18th - gene finalized: April 17th
Length: 471 bp - GC content: 71 %
The pharmaceutical activity […]
welcome
Dear visitor,
welcome to Mr. Gene’s Blog.
Please fasten the lid of your lab centrifuge and make sure that the tubes are well balanced. Then relax. As an appropriate inauguration of this blog, we should first clarify a very special term.
This term is, ahem, gene (click here to view a cute animated sequence on it).
Ok, well… G-E-N-E […]
