But before the explosion in recombinant DNA could begin, scientists would have to learn not only how to transfer DNA, but also how to isolate and modify individual genes.

A Sticky Situation: Recombinant DNA Technology Janet Mertz’s work with simian virus 40 DNA during her graduate years was pivotal for developing DNA recombination as we now know it.

Indeed, without the discovery of restriction enzymes, the fields of recombinant DNA technology, biotechnology, and genomics as we know them today would not exist.

Biotech companies use recombinant DNA to insert genes coding for useful products into bacteria and other organisms, turning them into tiny factories for making things from medicine to industrial ...

In addition, the team showed that genes with a sequence similarity to N4-cytosine methyltransferases, the enzymes that catalyze 4mC methylation in bacteria, were expressed in the same window of ...

To use CRISPR enzymes to edit gene sequences, scientists can tailor them to target a specific sequence within the three billion DNA base pairs in the human genome.