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How living systems are built, regulated and evolve — from cells to organisms.
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Cell & Molecular
How cells organise, signal and express genes.
Methods
What each task measures
- Quantitative PCR (qPCR)
- RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq)
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Gene Knockout and Knockdown
- Western Blot
- CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing
- Confocal Microscopy
- Immunofluorescence Staining
- Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS)
- Mass Spectrometry Proteomics
- 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing
- Flow Cytometry
- Electron Microscopy
- Luciferase Reporter Assay
- Bisulfite Sequencing
- ChIP-seq
- Metagenomic Sequencing
- Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq)
- ELISA
- Single-cell QC (mitochondrial filtering)