(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, December 7, 2015 A new tool enables researchers to test millions of mutated proteins in a matter of hours or days, speeding the search for new medicines, industrial enzymes and biosensors. By Ramin Skibba Cochran Lab An overview of the directed evolution process using the new Stanford technique: preparing protein libraries, screening them, extracting desired cells, and then inferring their DNA sequence. (Click image to enlarge.) All living things require proteins, members of a vast family of molecules that nature 'makes to order' according to the blueprints in DNA. Through the natural process of evolution, DNA mutations generate new or more...
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