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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

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They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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Blocked Transmission

Codon

In 2010, seven members of a soccer team in Oregon were infected with norovirus after touching a reusable grocery bag, which was covered in viral particles, and then eating the food inside. It renders proteins non-functional, inactivates key enzymes, damages DNA, and causes cells and viruses to break apart. million people in 2019.

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Making the Micropipette

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“Hazards of Mouth Pipetting” The micropipette, an instrument favored by researchers around the world to measure and move liquids from one container to another and used for everything from forensic analysis to DNA sequencing, was invented by an obscure, 32-year-old German postdoc after a particularly productive two-day tantrum.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Nature Reviews Genetics (2010). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & Nucleic Acids Research (2010). & Collins J.J.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Last edit: 13 September 2023 Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Nature Reviews Genetics (2010). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & & Collins J.J.

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A Reversal on Sequencing? Proposed Legislation Would Allow Patenting of Naturally Occurring Genes

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By 2010, about 2000 isolated human genes had been patented in the U.S. In 2010, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), among other organizations, brought suit against Myriad Genetics, challenging the validity of the company’s patents on the BRCA 1/2 genes. animal, viral, bacterial) DNA and RNA sequences.