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How the fuck does one "assemble DNA" lol Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction (I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a
by jmkni 3y ago
How the fuck does one "assemble DNA" lol
Sorry but that's so outside of my understanding it reads like pure science fiction
(I'm sure it's a thing, I'm just a moron)
- stavros 3y agoVery very small tweezers.
- fuzztester 3y agoWith nanotechnology.
- hackable_sand 3y agoAfter we did DNA extraction in high school we were provided toothpicks to serve the strands onto a microscope plate. So yeah, at a certain mass...
- yakorevivan 3y ago[dead]
- koeng 3y agoI use restriction enzymes + ligase to cut DNA, then paste it back together at specific sequences. It's pretty simple honestly! https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/gene-expression-and-regulation/biotechnology/a/overview-dna-cloning https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/gene-expressi... The key is doing that at an industrial scale, reproducibly, with hundreds to thousands of plasmids at once. Becomes less simple. You encounter bullshit problems with biology, which I guess is valuable because it makes a moat!