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Nixing the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Is Ill-Advised

PLOS: DNA Science

And my graduate student in bioethics wrote a compelling history of the first newborn screen for an “inborn error of metabolism,” phenylketonuria (PKU). The post Nixing the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Is Ill-Advised appeared first on DNA Science. Newborn screening has been a staple of pediatrics for many years.

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Something in the Air – Environmental DNA Update

PLOS: DNA Science

DNA is the calling card of life. In and on our bodies, traces of DNA sequences other than our own announce the presence of many microbes, our microbiome. “It seemed like it would be hard to get intact large fragments of DNA from the air, but that’s not the case. . We’re finding a lot of informative DNA.

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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

A “DNA damage checkpoint” rests the cell cycle while special proteins repair damaged DNA. I had the privilege to meet one of the first people to receive Gleevec, which I wrote about for Bioethics Today in 2006. The post How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle appeared first on DNA Science.

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Experiments Reveal the Early Human Embryo, with Implications for Infertility and Early Pregnancy Loss

PLOS: DNA Science

The woman donated through the Human Developmental Biology Resource, which grants automatic bioethical approval to donate embryos from the Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle and the Institute of Child Health, London. About half of a human genome consists of DNA sequences that can move about the chromosomes. Or RNA and DNA.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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