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A Visual Guide to Genome Editors

Codon

If the same virus invades the cell a second time, the gRNA’s spacer sequence will bind to the matching viral DNA sequence, then be cut by the Cas protein. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and also writes about science fact and fiction on Substack. He earned his A.B.

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Levers for Biological Progress

Codon

I’ve chosen these two because I think they are the linchpin by which we’ll be able to build broadly useful AI models for cell and molecular biology. But looking ahead to the second bottleneck, what does it mean to say that biology is “complex”?

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Issue 07 is Coming on Monday

Codon

Eryney Marrogi walks us through today’s most noteworthy gene delivery vehicles — AAVs, Lentivirus, Lipid Nanoparticles, and Herpes Simplex Virus — explaining the advantages and limitations of each. Why do the 96-well plates used in molecular biology laboratories consist of 96 wells instead of 100 or 200?

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Parasites of viruses drive superbug evolution

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

In a study published today in Cell, one of the most prominent peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Imperial College London have discovered a new way by which bacteria transmit their genes, enabling them to evolve much faster than previously (..)

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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify CRISPR Dimmer

The Pharma Data

Joshua Modell, an author on the paper and assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the lab will next explore how tracr-L is regulated in bacteria, which could lead to a regulatable guide RDA – “one this is silenced until you can turn its activity on or up.”.

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Phages could help to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Drug Target Review

Phage have been of interest to scientists as tools to understand fundamental molecular biology, as vectors of horizontal gene transfer and drivers of bacterial evolution, as sources of diagnostic and genetic tools, and as novel therapeutic agents.

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Q&A With Dr. Norbert Makori and Pierre Jolicoeur: The Benefits of Combining Preclinical and Bioanalytical for Your Gene Therapy Studies

Alta Sciences

PJ: At Altasciences, we have a range of leading-edge platforms that include ligand binding assays (LBA), NAb, TAb, flow cytometry, and ELISpot, as well as on-site molecular biology instrumentation such as Bio-Rad’s ddPCR system, the NanoDropTM One spectrophotometer, and dedicated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chambers.