Transfection

Synthetic biology is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that are already found in nature to have new abilities.

Optogenetics is a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control and monitor the activities of cells. Optogenetics is used in neuromodulation and to control biological elements.

DNA is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses.

RNA stands for ribonucleic acid. Messenger RNA (mRNA) is copied or transcribed from DNA and carries the coding information for the generation of a protein encoded by a gene. Different types of non-coding RNAs have roles in converting mRNA into protein and perform other regulatory functions in the cell.