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Gene construct

Information within a gene construct.

A gene construct contains all the information needed for transfection into a bovine cell and expression of the desired gene in a cow. This includes an antibiotic resistance marker, a tissue-specific promoter, the transgene/gene of interest and a stop sequence.

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