Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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Codon

JULY 21, 2024

And whereas it used to be costly for breeders to select for traits beyond the needs of their industry, the falling costs of advanced genomic selection techniques—breeding using DNA sequence data—make it increasingly fast and feasible. research universities, are responsible for the oversight and management of animal studies.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids. Across the tree of life, organisms strictly require exactly one of the two chiral forms of their molecular building blocks — amino acids, nucleotides of RNA and DNA. 4 As far as we know, right-handed proteins never occur naturally.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Her doctor said this was because she was 6 months pregnant. After doctors persistently attributed Diane’s fatigue, weakness, cough, and labored breathing to bronchitis, pneumonia, and a nebulous “virus,” she was finally diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (an enlarged heart) at age 57. Her heart had stopped.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Because the FDA has asserted since 2001 that modification of human embryos would require its permission, this effectively bans even the testing of such technology in the U.S. Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who had done his doctoral and post-doctoral training in U.S. while it proceeds elsewhere.

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