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Genes

• Last Edited: 6 Apr 2009
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Genes are functional units of the genetic material in the chromosomes of each cell. This material is desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. Its structure looks like an intertwined ladder, the double helix. ...

Tags: Gene, DNA, chromosome, cell, exon, RNA, Protein.

Exon skipping with U7 gene transfer

• Last Edited: 6 Jul 2009
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This is a gene therapy approach for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), based on the exon-skipping strategy and is currently under development. This approach consists of interacting with the splici...

Tags: gene, DNA, exon skipping, rna, U7, gene transfer.

Gene transfer with plasmids

• Last Edited: 7 Jul 2009
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Gene transfer with plasmids is can be very advantageous and attractive to patients and biologist because non-viral gene transfer does not require the incoming DNA to be related with the host DNA, ...

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Green Tea & DNA- A review by Dr Karl Bettelheim

• Last Edited: 30 Jul 2010
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Article submitted by Dr Karl Bettelheim published on the 20th of July 2010 IntroductionHere is something for everyone to think about and possibly to be able to do something abou...

Tags: Green Tea, DNA, muscle fibres.