Week 18 (Applications of Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis in Biotechnology)

  • Applications of Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis in Biotechnology
  • Production of Protein from Cloned Genes - Special vectors for expression
  • Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis in Medicine
    • Production of recombinant pharmaceuticals
    • Identification of genes responsible for human diseases
    • Gene Therapy
  • Gene Cloning  and DNA Analysis in Agriculture
    • Gene subtraction
  • Cloning and DNA Analysis in Forensic Science
    • Crime Scene investigation

Reading List 

  1. Brown T. A., Gene Cloning and DNA Manipulation- An Introduction (2006) 5th Ed., Blackwell Publishmg Inc., USA
  2. Prinrose S.B., Twyman R.M., and Old R.W. (2006) Principles of Gene Manipulation, 6th Ed., pp. 50-55.
  3. Tanley W.M.S., and Rapley, Molecular Biomethods Handbook, Chapter 16, Plasmid-Derived Cloning Vectors, Human Press Inc, Totowa. NJ pp, 165-179
  4. Gene Expression in Recombinant Microorganisms, A. Smith (1995), Marcel Dekker, New York.
  5. DNA fingerprinting, M. Krawezak and J. Schmidtke (1994), Bioscientific, Oxford