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Unlocking the potential of synthetic DNA 

Drug Discovery World

Raquel Sanches-Kuiper , Vice President of Science and Applications at Evonetix, and Clare Whitewoods , Marketing Communications Manager at Evonetix, look at the benefits synthetic DNA brings to pharmaceutical development.

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The 500th Blog Post at DNA Science: In Celebration of Vaccines

PLOS: DNA Science

A few weeks ago, I noticed a surprising metric when posting my weekly DNA Science blog – at year’s end, I’d hit #500! The Birth of DNA Science When St. Martin’s Press was about to publish my book about gene therapy in 2012, my agent urged me to start blogging. We renamed it DNA Science.

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Partial Fetus in Sister’s Brain Supports Role of DNA Repeats in Development

PLOS: DNA Science

” That means the genome of the doomed fetus-within-a-fetus had lots of copies of certain short DNA sequences that aren’t in the parents’ genomes (“ de novo ” means new). In addition to their roles in development, DNA repeats are used in DNA profiling and are behind a class of inherited diseases.

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Marvin Caruthers receives inaugural Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for DNA synthesis technology

Broad Institute

Related links Merkin Prize Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA The inaugural Richard N. Caruthers was announced as the winner in June for his development, in 1981, of an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.

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Driving Toward Nanopores

Codon

And unlike traditional DNA sequencers, which parse genetic material by breaking it up into fragments and interpreting it chunk-by-chunk, a nanopore device unspools a long strand of DNA and reads it all at once. A scientist can isolate DNA and load up a flow cell in fifteen minutes. Nanopore devices work incredibly fast.

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CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases

Drug Discovery World

Rolf Turk , Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. parvovirus B19, Flaviviridae, Ebola, and Coronaviridae), DNA viruses (e.g., To achieve cell-specific delivery, many systems rely on using cell-specific DNA aptamers (e.g.,

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CRISPR to Reveal How “Water Bears” (Tardigrades) Survive Extreme Environments

PLOS: DNA Science

After all, they can reproduce even under radiation levels 1,000 times that which would kill a human, possessing admirable DNA repair skills. But since 2012, the gene editing tool CRISPR has introduced a specificity to removing a gene to see what it does. And that’s what the work described in the new paper in PLoS Genetics does.

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