The development of this video was funded under NIE Incentivsing
ICT Use Innovation Grant (I3G 02/16 CZ).
What does it take to invent the next iPhone? Or find the next
penicillin? Does it take a genius like Steve Jobs or Alexander Fleming, who in
their garage or isolated laboratory, had an eureka moment and magically
discovered the next big thing? What is the formula to discover the next
breakthrough?
It all begins with observation. In 1987, when a group of
Japanese scientists discovered an odd DNA sequence in a type of bacteria, the
E.coli. These repeated sequences were something that had never been seen
before. They are palindromic, meaning they read identically forward and
backward, for about 30 bases, and are separated by spacers of roughly about 36
bases that are not palindromic in nature.
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please contact Asst. Prof. Chen Zhong (zhong.chen@nie.edu.sg)
at National Institute of Education, Singapore.