Who’s calling? - it’s me, your houseplant!
Any hobby gardeners aboard? Recently, I came across a somehow weird website that promoted “communication between plants and people”. Plants (soundbite!) “that might otherwise be neglected are given the ability to call and text message people to request assistance”.
Plants that place phone calls for human help! No kidding!! Such well-connected networking plants will be all […]
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 […]
Blue Pill Anniversary
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the event that revolutionized consumer pharmaceuticals. Sadly, we are not referring to the Schweinsohr (Swine’s ear a.k.a. Gomphus clavatus), the 1998 German “Fungus of the Year” winner.
You would be getting fairly close if you’ve guessed the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ferid Murad, […]
some like it hot - others like more protein!
This success story was provided by Felix List (graduate student at Prof. R. Sterner’s Lab; Lehrstuhl Biochemie II, Prof. Sterner; Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry; University of Regensburg)
1:Expression profile and codon quality of wt sequence
2:Expression profile and codon quality of optimized sequence
3:Protein Standard
(Expression strain: BL21 (DE3) Rosetta2, pET24a)
Background:
Sulfolobus solfataricus, a hyperthermophilic archaeon of the […]
