PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 27, 2023

Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages. emerged in late 2021.

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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. 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

JUNE 13, 2024

The virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, home of a premiere research institute that focuses on viruses. Experiments at the Wuhan facility were done at the lowest two of the four standard biosafety levels, which were established at the dawn of recombinant DNA research in the 1970s. An altered virus could have escaped. Coincidence?

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Codon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It was March 2003, and an unfortunate 33-year-old, known only as patient YY, was suffering from intense diarrhea. Patient YY’s neighbors quickly started to become infected, passing on the virus in turn. Tom Ough writes about how UVC light, metals, and surface coatings can help fend off pathogens for Issue 01. Always free.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

Many students are taught that the Central Dogma is simply “DNA → RNA → protein.” In 1956, Crick was working on a lecture that would bring together what was then known about the “flow of information” between DNA, RNA, and protein in cells.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, cloning DNA molecules and inserting them into cells — a process required for basically all experiments in molecular biology — takes up to a week of work. Perhaps you’ve seen this chart before, which shows the falling costs of DNA sequencing over the last two decades. If we could get E.

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