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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

“Bill Studier’s development of T7 phage RNA polymerase for use in preparing RNA templates for multiple uses in research labs worldwide has been a truly revolutionary technical advance for the entire field of molecular biology,” said Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University.

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The role of STRIs in cancer

Drug Target Review

a biopharmaceutical company, from August 2007 until its acquisition by Roche Holding AG in 2011. Dr Worland was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology at Harvard University and completed a Ph.D. Previously, Dr Worland served as Chief Executive Officer of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., He received his B.S.

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The essential role of recombinant phage display antibody libraries

Drug Target Review

Methods in Molecular Biology. Journal of Molecular Biology. 2011 Oct 1;413(1):261–78. Recombinant Anti-idiotypic Antibodies in Ligand Binding Assays for Antibody Drug Development. 2021;291–306. Prassler J, Thiel S, Pracht C, et al. Harth S, Ten Haaf A, Loew C, et al.

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Phages could help to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Drug Target Review

Phage have been of interest to scientists as tools to understand fundamental molecular biology, as vectors of horizontal gene transfer and drivers of bacterial evolution, as sources of diagnostic and genetic tools, and as novel therapeutic agents. 2011 January 1 [2023 November 21]; 1(1):31-45. This study was published in Nature.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

MSTX), from 2010, and was also a member of its board of directors from 2011, until Mast’s merger with Savara, Inc. He received a BS in biology from Boston College, a masters in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A. SVRA) in April 2017.

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A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life

LifeSciVC

The central dogma of molecular biology is that information generally (with few exceptions) flows from DNA to RNA to Protein. In my own career, starting to write a blog was one of my most impactful “Friday afternoon experiments” – I even called it an experiment in my very first blogpost back in March 2011.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

In 2011, biophysicists at Stony Brook University estimated how the rates of protein folding impact E. Ultimately, no matter the model organism or where it comes from, molecular biology will probably never approach the speed of computer programming. coli growth. The resulting strain of V. But it can improve.

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