An all in-one-pot approach to gene synthesis

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An all in-one-pot approach to gene synthesis

There's a new and much improved plotfrom that synthesis gene a method called Dryosynth could pave  the way to easier contribution of low cost large scale synthetic gene libraries, overcome the need for specialized devices or industrial-level facilities. 

Dryosynth can now successfully build more than 7000 different version of synthetic gene that encode two essential proteins in the bacteria Escherichia coil . the quest to scale up technologies that synthesise structure of DNA (or oligonucletides ) in recent years has led to a greater demand for techniques that assembly synthetic oligonucletides into large genes that encoded proteins of interest.

Source: The Hindu news paper

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