Jeffrey Tabor and Prabha Ramakrishnan (IMAGE)

Rice University

Jeffrey Tabor and Prabha Ramakrishnan

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Rice University synthetic biologist Jeffrey Tabor and graduate student Prabha Ramakrishnan turned a protein used by freshwater photosynthetic bacteria to avoid damaging ultraviolet light into a photoreversible regulatory tool for synthetic biologists.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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