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07 December 2025
Magic Box
There's MAGIC (MultiSite Assembly of Gateway Induced Clones) to be found inside a new genetic engineering toolkit: it's a collection of DNA fragments known as plasmids, for manipulating (including by chemical or optical means) gene expression in living animals (applicable in birds, fish and mammals) and in cells in the lab. Here, the MAGIC system highlights a cell's inner scaffold or cytoskeleton of actin filaments
Image made using Leica Microsystems microscopy
Read the published research article here
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