The Gene Genie

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Description:	Less than 60 years after Cambridge scientists Watson and Crick first discovered the 3D structure of DNA, Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and his team of chemical biologists have not only co-discovered how to make DNA sequencing cheaper and quicker but are unlocking the mysteries of four-stranded DNA structures. This is an image from one of the very early runs of Solexa sequencing (done in the company Solexa). It represents an image of a surface of a sequencing chip containing clusters of DNA molecules during one cycle of Solexa sequencing.

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Less than 60 years after Cambridge scientists Watson and Crick first discovered the 3D structure of DNA, Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and his team of chemical biologists have not only co-discovered how to make DNA sequencing cheaper and quicker but are unlocking the mysteries of four-stranded DNA structures.

This is an image from one of the very early runs of Solexa sequencing (done in the company Solexa). It represents an image of a surface of a sequencing chip containing clusters of DNA molecules during one cycle of Solexa sequencing.


Created:	2011-03-15 14:39
Collection:	Cambridge podcasts
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	University of Cambridge
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	cambridge; Science; genes;

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