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BS 204 Guy Caldwell: The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
The Role of Molecular Biology in Neuroscience
The process of going from DNA to protein really involves a host of molecules that are really the core of molecular biology. It sure is and applying it to neuroscientists as you asked earlier really has flourished over the past 15 years or so. Mainly because people have designed all kinds of tools like the Glee fluorescent protein GFP that allow us to splice in a fluorescent protein from jellyfish for example into the DNA of a worm or even a human cell now. We can then light up the nervous system of the worm or a fruit fly or a mouse and study whether or not those neurons are connecting properly or functioning properly or dying for example. Of course in Nelst models and stuff
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