The extracellular matrix

Filed under: Uni stuff — danny at 9:10 pm on Monday, August 14, 2006

cellmatrix.jpg

Well, that’s not entirely scientifically correct, but doesn’t this look cool? We literally shoot DNA encoding green fluorescent protein from a jellyfish into leek which then forces them to make the protein, causing their cells to glow green. In nerd talk this is known as biolistic microprojectile delivery of a plant expression vector causing transient heterologous expression. And who said science isn’t cool?

Actually I said that today, but honours is my excuse.

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Comment by moo

September 17, 2006 @ 1:47 am

haha omg, that’s so cool and matrix like!

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