Automation of a protocol for rapidly analyzing gene expression on a large scale will yield faster results at less cost
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 09:01
in Biology & Nature
To generate an overall view of cell function, molecular biologists build simultaneous expression, or activity, profiles of thousands of genes. Gene expression begins with a process called transcription, during which the DNA sequence encoding a gene is copied into RNA. The information contained in the transcript is then translated into a chain of amino acids that folds up to form a functional protein molecule.