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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors

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Gray, in London to discuss the significance of her recovery at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing , described Casgevy as “a new beginning for people with sickle cell disease.” pyogenes protein — whose compactness makes them far easier to package into viral vectors and deliver into the human body.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

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A BBC documentary on ‘The Virus that Cures’ was broadcast around the world in 1997, and in the former communist party headquarters in Georgia, American investors helped organize the first major international conference on phage therapy since the 1930s. I cover this more extensively in The Good Virus.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. No longer. ” And a third paper (BOOM!)

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. No longer. ” And a third paper (BOOM!)

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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

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Some field strategists — such as Salvador Luria, in the case of molecular biology — have a warm personality that draws individuals into a field. A package containing 100 cc. But that was not the case with Cohn, who had a penchant for success despite his interpersonal quirks. cans of serum albumin.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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For context, the AAV9 that is often used in gene therapies has a packaging limit of 4,700 DNA bases.) Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. “Anyone with a few years of molecular biology training could do this if so inclined.”

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

For context, the AAV9 that is often used in gene therapies has a packaging limit of 4,700 DNA bases.) Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. “Anyone with a few years of molecular biology training could do this if so inclined.”

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