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Scientists track diet through stool DNA, revealing a new way to monitor nutrition
Scientists developed MEDI, a method to estimate dietary intake from food DNA in human stool, offering a more accurate ...
Genetic study links defects in sugar digestion to irritable bowel syndrome
Sucrase-isomaltase (SI) is an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of dietary carbohydrates, particularly sucrose and ...
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Genome Editing
The investigator will provide a DNA digest for purification by the facility. This DNA will be injected into the pronuclei of fertilized mouse eggs. Surviving embryos will be transferred to surrogate ...
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Do Transcription Factors Actually Bind DNA? DNA Footprinting and Gel Shift Assays
Finally, the DNA products resulting from the digestion are separated on a polyacrylamide gel, which is dried and placed against X-ray film to enable visualization. The resulting image is referred ...
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DNA Fingerprinting Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLP)
Today, researchers are increasingly turning to AFLP-PCR in their DNA fingerprinting efforts. AFLP-PCR uses many of the same steps as RFLP, SSR, and RAPD, including restriction enzyme digestion of ...