...research and training is getting tighter and competition is fierce. However, I believe there are plenty...Washington University founded a successful consulting company called The Balsa Group. University of Pennsylvania... Consulting. I know of many schools that have completely student/postdoc-driven biotechnology clubs such...

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... Blue light renders the NLS accessible and the complex enters the nucleus where dCas9-Mxi1 can repress.... In the dark, the NLS is inaccessible and the complex remains in the cytoplasm. Read the paper in Cellular...CRISPR-based DNA demethylation Figure 2: The components of Casilio-ME1. Image from Taghbalout et al.,...

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