BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kary Mullis, Genetically Modified Soybean, Geron Corporation
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Los angeles times- first (legal) clinical trial for stem cell therapy (spinal cord damage: geron corporation, first embryonic stem cells used. Kary mullis: cetus sold pcr for million (paid him ,000, thermus aquaticus- taq, nucleotides a, t,c, g. Used to have to grind up large amounts of tissue to replicate, too much trouble. With this, could make lots of copies with little material. Topisomerase could untangle knots- we just heat it up to melt dna. Primase- we synthesize primer dntp: ntp (ex. If i give yeast maltose or fructose, would this be better for beer: can buy chips and chip readers from various companies, or buy chips and have them analyse for you, matabolonomics, pharmacogenomics- 23 and me. Lecture 5: agricultural biotechnology used to do traditional farming not too long ago (and still do in places like. Fermentation and brewing have been used for thousands of years, but other aspects of biotechnology are more modern.