The goal of this project is to determine if plant chloroplasts isolated from spinach can maintaining active chloroplast gene expression when placed into a mammalian cell environment. Chloroplasts were isolated and purified from fresh spinach leaves and introduced into human fibroblasts. RNA was isolated

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Creator

• Diamond, Ian Michael

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042618-120236

Advisor

• Dominko, Tanja

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biology & Biotechnology

Rights statement

• In Copyright