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APRIL 23, 2023

The country has now ruled that the gene-edited bananas are exempt from GMO regulations because they do not carry additional DNA sequences, and so they will not have to pass through strict safety testing. 📎 Papers Strands of DNA can be used to build molecular logic gates. ” Quanta Magazine. Nature Communications.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Ironically, while I was reading The Covenant of Water , the cover story of the July 23 New York Times magazine featured The Vanishing Family , by Robert Kolker. The post The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: A Geneticist’s Review appeared first on DNA Science. It is an unforgettable book. Thank you, Dr. Verghese.

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JUNE 22, 2023

A “DNA damage checkpoint” rests the cell cycle while special proteins repair damaged DNA. I visited Erin Zammett Ruddy at the headquarters of Glamour magazine in Manhattan, where she was an editor. The post How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle appeared first on DNA Science.

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MAY 2, 2024

Will an effort to determine the sex chromosome constitutions of nearly 600,000 men whose DNA is being analyzed in the Million Veteran Program provide helpful health information – or highlight another possible source of genetic judgment? appeared first on DNA Science. Of twelve men with unusual chromosomes, seven had an extra Y.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Modern biotechnology began in 1972 when biochemists at Stanford University spliced together DNA from two different organisms. The race to exploit recombinant DNA technology was on. “I simply shuffled genes, changing bacteria that already existed,” said Chakrabarty in an interview with People magazine.

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MARCH 24, 2024

Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on. If the technology proved successful in human beings, it would take Moderna weeks, not years, to make a new product,” wrote Catherine Elton in Boston Magazine.

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MARCH 16, 2023

” That means the genome of the doomed fetus-within-a-fetus had lots of copies of certain short DNA sequences that aren’t in the parents’ genomes (“ de novo ” means new). In addition to their roles in development, DNA repeats are used in DNA profiling and are behind a class of inherited diseases.

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MARCH 12, 2023

“The recombinant DNA breakthrough has provided us with a new and powerful approach to the questions that have intrigued and plagued man for centuries. The central dogma is often depicted as DNA→RNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. Biology is a Burrito. 6 of 31.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Today we’re launching Asimov Press , a new publishing venture modeled on Stripe Press , that will produce a newsletter, magazine, and books that feature writing about biology. Newsletters and magazines will be free to read.

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Codon

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By combining mammoth DNA recovered from ancient permafrost with stem cells of the species’ closest living ancestor, the Asian elephant, the company aims to make hybrid embryos. These embryos must then be nurtured and able to grow to term, ideally inside of an Asian elephant. .” Presumably, Lamm aims to fill in these gaps.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Some scientists even think it had a virus defense system; “researchers say LUCA likely housed 19 CRISPR genes, which bacteria use to slice up viral threats,” reports Quanta Magazine. DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

pestis DNA in the dental pulp of skeletons in various medieval burial sites across Europe, which corresponded to recorded outbreaks, including in cemeteries used exclusively for Black Death victims. Saloni Dattani is a co-founder of Works in Progress magazine and a researcher on global health at Our World in Data. ” Asimov Press.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Short DNA strands were discovered that can specifically and tightly bind to zinc and cadmium ions. Perhaps there is now a way to use DNA to extract metals: You could fuse the DNA strands to an antibody, coat them onto electronics, and then use a column to isolate the DNA:metal compounds? coli DNA using a Retro-Cascorder.

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Codon

MAY 30, 2023

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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Codon

MAY 30, 2023

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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Codon

MAY 11, 2023

Read more in IFL Science & Asterisk Magazine 2/ Little Cloned Horse Wild Mongolian horses, called takhi , once roamed the mighty Asian steppes. link ) A more representative human genome sequence, based on DNA from 47 ethnically diverse people, was published yesterday. Consider it our moonshot for food.

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MAY 11, 2023

Read more in IFL Science & Asterisk Magazine 2/ Little Cloned Horse Wild Mongolian horses, called takhi , once roamed the mighty Asian steppes. link ) A more representative human genome sequence, based on DNA from 47 ethnically diverse people, was published yesterday. Consider it our moonshot for food.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

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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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

My 500th post here at DNA Science , from 2023, was In Celebration of Vaccines – for good reason. The post Removing The CDC Vaccine Assessment Tool Will Do Harm appeared first on DNA Science. … the disease gradually travelled southward, almost stripping the country of children. Can you distinguish antibody from antigen?

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APRIL 3, 2025

But Lebensborn victims’ voices cannot all be silenced, and some have told their stories: I am a Lebensborn Child by Adele Meredith, NBC News’s Secret Nazi Lebensborn Children Go Public and BBC History Magazine’s The Woman Who Gave Birth for Hitler are a few. “Why a novel about the SS Lebensborn program?

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MARCH 26, 2023

Link A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth. Link DNA storage in thermoresponsive microcapsules for repeated random multiplexed data access. Link Semi-rational evolution of a recombinant DNA polymerase for modified nucleotide incorporation efficiency. Quanta Magazine.

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Codon

AUGUST 10, 2023

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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MAY 12, 2025

Thomas has received an invitation from a magazine editor to help replace the ancient Seven Wonders with seven modern ones. Proteins and DNA usually unravel in such scalding environments, yet researchers who descended in submarines in 1982 found entire colonies thriving at these extreme temperatures. The essay’s premise is simple.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A 1944 TIME magazine article reported on Rock’s work in heroic terms: Man will never be happy until he has proved that he is at least as smart as nature. Enzmann received favorable coverage from TIME magazine. One thing he would like to show the world is that he can reproduce himself scientifically.

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