How does gene therapy work?

Gene therapy is the addition of new genes to a patient’s cells to replace missing or malfunctioning genes. Researchers typically do this using a virus to carry the genetic cargo into cells, because that
’s what viruses evolved to do with their own genetic material.
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Bacteria can be turned into living computers

Bacteria have been turned into “living computers” and used to solve a mathematical problem.
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DNA Sequencing in a Snap: An innnovative approach

A novel sequencing technology being developed by a Massachusetts startup allows scientists to take photographs of the sequence of a DNA molecule.
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Teen Helps Design DNA Experiments Using Common Food Dyes

Agarose gel electrophoresis? Most teenagers wouldn’t have a clue what this scientific term means, but middle school student Andrew Trigiano knows the protocol inside and out.
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DNA Jigsaw Puzzle: Pyrosequencing the DNA of HIV/AIDS Virus

A new mathematical and statistical method allows the virus population in a diseased organism to be determined quickly and economically. Using this method, medicines and vaccines against diseases caused by viral infections could be developed and deployed in a more targeted way in the future.
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