Now that you have remembered and familiarized yourself with RNA, lets get to some biotechnology and start learning about possible manipulations and uses.
Here is an article from 2004 that MIT published on their advancements with RNA manipulation. Also, this article discusses RNA silencing techniques. It is from Rockefeller University and should be relatively understandable with some practice.
What should you do with this new information? Well, not only are we focusing on RNA manipulations- we will also be practicing scientific reading. HOW do you get information from papers? OR even begin to understand what is going on in them?
Please start by reading the two articles above, one being a for a wider audience, press release style, and then the other being a scientific journal. Highlight terms that you do not know or understand and look up at least five of these terms before coming to class. We will review as a class and work at understanding and sorting through scientific work together. I understand that the first time through you may want to highlight almost every word, but please stick with it.
