The end is near

Hi everyone,

To end this blog I would like to give a small summary of this blog-journey!

I began this blog by telling you some more about what technology is capable of doing with DNA. I gave some interesting ‘did you know’ about today and introduced you to glofish and the research for cancer genes and hereditary diseases. A big part of our discussion was about Ebola which was something actual and everyone had his opinion about it.

Because my Master thesis evolved around duplexes, I focused my last few post around the main application of duplexes: RNA interference. A biological process who consist of small interfering RNA sequences which make sure that the messenger RNA didn’t get to say his message (by degradation of the mRNA). Many research is done but there are still some challenges connected to this mechanism such as the delivery system or the fact that the siRNA had to reach their target without degrading itself.

I would like to thank you for reading my posts and making sure that we had some good discussions! I hope you enjoyed some of the posts (hopefully most of them) and I would like to wish everyone success with the last few months becoming an Industrial Engineer 🙂

The final qoute of the day: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill

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Jooske