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Biotechnology

Reading, copying, editing and writing genomes

The techniques of modern biology with the practical detail that survives the move from a review paper to a bench: efficiencies, controls, and where projects usually stop.

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The foundational topics in biotechnology.

The four core capabilities of biotechnology arranged as a stack: read, copy, edit and write, with what each unlocked

What is Biotechnology?

Biotechnology explained through the four things you can now do to a genome, the order the field acquired them, and what each one unlocked.

Nanoschool Bio Desk · 4 min

All biotechnology articles

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How CRISPR-Cas9 locates a target sequence and cuts it, and the two repair pathways the cell then uses

CRISPR in plain language, without the hype

How CRISPR finds one address in three billion letters, why the scissors were never the innovation, and why a precise edit is a screening campaign rather than an operation.

Nanoschool Bio Desk · 4 min

Biotechnology terms

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