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An Overview of Gene Expression
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Gene expression is the complex process where a cell uses its genetic information to make functional products. This process is regulated at multiple stages, and any misregulation could lead to diseases such as cancer.
This video highlights important historical discoveries relating to gene expression, including the understanding of how distinct combinations of DNA bases encode the amino acids that make up proteins. Key questions in the field of gene expression research are explored, followed by a discussion of several techniques used to measure gene expression and investigate its regulation. Finally, we look at how scientists are currently using these techniques to study gene expression.
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Gene expression is the process where information contained in a cell’s DNA is used to make functional products. This carefully orchestrated procedure is regulated at several stages, and misregulation can often result in diseases such as cancer.This video provides an overview of the history of gene expression research, key questions, methods in the field, and how these techniques are being applied.We’ll begin by reviewing some major discoveries about gene expression….
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Gene ExpressionDNAFunctional ProductsRegulationMisregulationDiseasesCancerHistory Of Gene Expression ResearchKey QuestionsMethodsTechniquesMajor DiscoveriesFrancis CrickJames WatsonRosalind FranklinStructure Of DNADouble HelixNucleotide BasesSequence HypothesisCentral DogmaFran�ois JacobJacques MonodRegulation Of Gene Expression
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JoVE Science Education Database. JoVE Science Education. An Overview of Gene Expression. JoVE, Cambridge, MA, (2023).
