Drug Discovery World

AUGUST 5, 2022

Three key members of the team – Dr Raquel Sanches-Kuiper, Vice President of Technology, Dr Matthew Hayes, Chief Technology Officer and John Edgell, Head of Cloud Engineering – explain how the company is doing this and what it means for the advancement of DNA synthesis in the lab. The next goal is to optimise the technology. “At

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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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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 11, 2024

In the classic film Jurassic Park (JP) from 1993, disasters unfurl at a theme park populated with dinosaurs cloned from reptile DNA in mosquitoes fossilized in amber, with modern frog DNA filling in gaps. The animals were cloned from DNA in bits of preserved ear bones, and doctored a bit. million to 11,700 years ago.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 1, 2023

DEB has been a candidate for a gene therapy since 2002. This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. “Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed.

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