Browsing by Subject "yeast"
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7.342 The Biology of Aging: Age-Related Diseases and Interventions, Fall 2011
(2011-12)Aging involves an intrinsic and progressive decline in function that eventually will affect us all. While everyone is familiar with aging, many basic questions about aging are mysterious. Why are older people more likely ... -
7.342 To Divide or Not To Divide: Control of Cell Cycle and Growth by Extracellular Cues, Fall 2012
(2012-12)Cells, regardless of whether they are in an organ in the human body or a component of a bacterial colony, can sense the chemical composition of the environment, the presence of neighboring cells, and even the types of their ... -
7.345 Using Simple Organisms to Model Human Diseases, Spring 2013
(2013-06)How do scientists discover the basic biology underlying human diseases? Simple organisms such as baker’s yeast, nematodes, fruit flies, zebrafish, mice and rats have allowed biologists to investigate disease at ... -
7.347 Fueling Sustainability: Engineering Microbial Systems for Biofuel Production, Spring 2011
(2011-06)The need to identify sustainable forms of energy as an alternative to our dependence on depleting worldwide oil reserves is one of the grand challenges of our time. The energy from the sun converted into plant biomass is ... -
Yeast Golden Gate: Standardized Assembly of S. cerevisiae Transcriptional Units
(2012-10-11)BBF RFC 88 describes a new standard for the assembly of basic Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcriptional units (TUs) consisting of a promoter/5’untranslated region (UTR), open reading frame (ORF), and 3’UTR/terminator. Note ...