I'm Bob Doughty. And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week,we will tell about a study involving monkeys and a gene from jellyfish.

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How would I put a gene that I'm interested in into a plasmid?

怎么把我想要的基因整合到质粒上呢

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Control of gene expression is a very big topic and so I'm going to show you one cartoon to sort of tell you that it is a big topic that's really important.

基因表达的调控是个大课题,我给你们放一些动画,好让你们理解,其涉及范围之广,意义之重

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

It is this m-gene that has experts on the lookout, because the presence of the m-gene can make it more easily transmissible to humans.

CNN: CDC: Increase seen in new swine flu strain

Somewhere along the line, H3N2 and H1N1 viruses were present in a mammal at the same time, and the "matrix-gene" (or m-gene) from the H1N1 pandemic virus was picked up by the H3N2 swine flu, creating a new or variant version of H3N2.

CNN: CDC: Cases of new swine flu strain rising

Somewhere along the line, H3N2 and H1N1 viruses were present in a mammal at the same time and the "matrix-gene" (or m-gene) from the H1N1 pandemic virus was picked up by the H3N2 swine flu, thus creating a new or variant version of H3N2.

CNN: CDC: Increase seen in new swine flu strain