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We use RNAi and Lentiviral transgenesis in our lab to generate transgenic mice. We use luceferase assay to validate the shRNA sequences. The problem is the results don't seem to traslate well into in vitro systems. I analysed 8 sequences with the assay and made virus with them. The virus / plasmid h...

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... there different types of epithelial cells? 3.) What are epithelial cells being used for? 4.) Could these cells be used to help people with medical problems such as disease or paralysis? 5.) Are these cells causing any controversy in the same degree as stem cells? 6.) Could we live without these ...

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... The first 46 chromosome humans who were born to the existing 47 chromosome lineage may have right away been fertile, or at first had sterility problems in which case human chromosome #2 had to first learn to survive to replicate without the unfused chromosomes of the other allele there to help ...

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... reason for that was something like a childhood trauma, and the food does not in reality taste disgusting (i.e. the other people eat it without any problems).

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Genetic linkage occurs when particular genetic loci or alleles for genes are inherited jointly. Genetic loci on the same chromosome are physically connected and tend to stay together during meiosis, and are thus genetically linked. This is called autosomal linkage. Alleles for genes on different chr...

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