Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Reading DNA The first step in detecting a novel pathogen is recognizing it as an anomaly amidst a noisy background of other material. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The most groundbreaking cancer drug approval was for Gleevec , with a mere 3-month trajectory at FDA before its approval in 2001. This removes the cancer’s blocking of the immune response, so that T cells can fight the cancer. It even worked on slides that hadn’t previously been analyzed or cancer type identified.

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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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