Broad Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

His lab had just developed base editing, a gene-editing approach that makes single-letter changes in DNA and can shut down protein production using strategies including installing a stop signal in the genetic code. They then administered the AAVs to mice infected with the human prion protein.

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Disease DNA Protein Production Treatment 144

Agency IQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Cell-based assays , while more complex to develop and use, offer another option for characterizing product activity at a slightly higher level, allowing sponsors to measure the further downstream effects of products (e.g., morphological cell changes or alterations in protein production or expression).

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Production FDA Therapies Biochemical Assays 40

Codon

MARCH 24, 2024

In the first real test of delivering a complex biomolecule to over a billion people, little has changed from how Genentech first approached manufacturing in the 1980s; Cells are genetically engineered and then grown in steel tanks. To make matters worse, many companies struggled with engineering problems on the path to scale.

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Engineering Vaccine Production RNA 87

Codon

MAY 30, 2023

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. The wild-type IscB protein only has 500 amino acids. It opens up a whole new class of biological engineering.

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DNA RNA Engineering Vaccine 52

Codon

MAY 30, 2023

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. The wild-type IscB protein only has 500 amino acids. It opens up a whole new class of biological engineering.

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DNA RNA Engineering Vaccine 52