Invitrogen Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., offers TOPO® Tools for those interested in an alternative to conventional, time-consuming cloning techniques. TOPO Tools provide a relatively fast way of joining ...

For example, cloning the gene for human insulin allows us to produce large amounts of insulin in bacteria. Cloning is easier than you might think. If you already have a gene in mind you can look ...

Figure 1: Cloning DNA nanostructures using bacteria and phages. a, A four-arm junction and a paranemic crossover. b, The DNA nanostructure (red segment) ...

Now, they have developed a direct cloning method that aims to accelerate large-scale discovery of novel natural products. Their findings are reported in the journal Nature Communications .