VIRUS 2 (image)

Rice University

Caption

Rice University graduate student Eric Gomez holds a spiral-patterned mask he used to control gene-expression patterns in a petri dish. Cells in the dish contained a modified virus that responded to red light and delivered their genetic cargoes to the nuclei of cells.

Credit

Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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