Sentences with phrase «engineer whole organisms»

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The whole point of a gene drive is to disperse in the wild, but government regulations are designed to keep genetic engineering out of wild organisms, says Zach Adelman, a molecular biologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Some are eaten as a whole organism — such as papaya engineered to resist the ringspot virus.

This engineering perspective may be applied at all levels of the hierarchy of biological structures — from individual molecules to whole cells, tissues and organisms.

Site specific recombinases are prominent genetic engineering tools that allow the genetic manipulation of whole organisms.

Whole - organism biofuel cells require engineers to design a space - adding membrane that prevents unwanted reactions between fuel, the charge - transporting agent and the electron - accepting metal, the latter being the electrode that carries the electricity to the device.