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Synthetic biology as a tool for grieving. Gonna go build an easy clone and savor the moment as a much-needed distraction. Funny, was just explaining what I've been working on to my dad not a few days ago. Might clone in his mito d-loop into my plasmid in memorial...
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You can slap it onto a transposon and let it hoppy-copy around. Cause variegation even. Lots of hacks but nothing immediately relevant at the sequence level. The d-loop is a noisy part of the mitochondrial genome and the snps there can track maternal lineage to some degree.
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