MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'dna synthesis'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4142559&cid=t_141066_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rawvoice.com%2Fpmn_twiv%2Ftraffic.libsyn.com%2Ftwiv%2FTWiV106.flv Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit On episode #106 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Dickson, and Rich continue Virology 101 with a second installment of their discussion of how viruses with DNA genomes replicate their genetic information. Download TWiV #106 (69 MB .mp3, 95 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email, or listen on your mobile device with Stitcher Radio. Links for this episode: Figures for this episode (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 106 Video of this episode – download .mov or .wmv or view below Weekly Science Picks Rich – Google Health Dickson – The Neandertal genome Vincent – Lab techniques videos (thanks, Erik!) Send your virology questions ... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4142559 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:29:20 +0100 4142559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862086&cid=t_141066_77_f&fid=37259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizonpress.com%2Fblogger%2F2009%2F10%2Freverse-transcription.html Retroviruses are unique among animal viruses in that their replication requires the recombination of their own genetic material with that of the infected host cell. Two virus-encapsulated enzymes, reverse transcriptase and integrase, are dedicated to provirus formation. Reverse transcriptase, using a packaged cellular tRNA primer to initiate DNA synthesis from the viral RNA template, generates linear double-stranded DNA within the context of the reverse transcription nucleoprotein complex. The integrase enzyme processes the neo-synthesised DNA ends as the preintegration complex moves toward the cell nucleus. After finding a suitable chromatin acceptor site, the integrase recombines the processed DNA ends with a cell chromosome. For further details on the mechanisms of viral DNA synthesis, ... Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862086 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:58:00 +0100 2862086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2296195&cid=t_141066_132_f&fid=35028&url=http%3A%2F%2Flurena.vox.com%2Flibrary%2Fpost%2Fde-novo-dna-synthesis-using-single-molecule-pcr-biosysbio-2009.html%3F_c%3Dfeed-rss T Ben Yehezkel et al. Weizmann Institute of Science When looking at the number of clones needed to sequenced in order to get one error-free molecule, the proportion of perfect molecules decrease exponentially with length. They have an error-corre... Read and post comments | Send to a friend (Source: Systems Biology & Bioinformatics) Systems Biology & Bioinformatics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2296195 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:04:37 +0100 2296195 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=810007&cid=t_141066_107_f&fid=36045&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbayblab.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Ftravel-back-in-time-to-synthetic_15.html For those interested in synthetic biology (and if you're not you should be), videos of almost all the talks from Synthetic Biology 3.0 in Zurich are now available for download. Here are my personal favorites and some reflections on the conference: George Church, Harvard Medical SchoolReading , Writing and Evolving Genomes Although I did find the talk a bit disjointed and rushed (I guess my brain was too slow to keep up), this talk gets you up to speed on the state of the art and the current challenges in genome-scale DNA synthesis. If you look really closely you can see me in the front row struggling to take in everything displayed on the giant IMAX-like projector screen a few feet away.Pam Silver, Harvard Medical SchoolDesigning Biological Memory and LogicPam had some great videos of euka... Bayblab blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=810007 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:06:00 +0100 810007