What do you think about the PURE system?

Eduardo Goncalves Paterson Fox @Eduardo_Fox

07 July 2012 0 2K Report

I have been reading about cell-free protein expression systems. However my colleagues say they do not find many using the commercial PURE system which used recombinant expression elements. Does anyone know why? Is it flawed?

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