Programming DNA (IMAGE)

University of Delaware

Programming DNA

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DNA has an important job -- it tells your cells which proteins to make. Now, a research team at the University of Delaware has developed technology to program strands of DNA into switches that turn proteins on and off.

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University of Delaware

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