Broad Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

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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Codon

AUGUST 26, 2024

Remdesivir and other broad-spectrum antivirals work by jamming up RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), an enzyme that nearly all RNA viruses use to replicate their genomes. Other efforts to build broad-spectrum antivirals have focused on another conserved feature of viruses: double-stranded RNA.

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Codon

JUNE 11, 2024

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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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 9, 2023

The specific proteins found in these aggregates can vary, but approximately 95 percent of ALS patients and 50 percent of FTD patients develop aggregates containing the TDP-43 protein (short for tar DNA binding protein 43). 14 TDP-43 is a DNA and RNA binding protein that regulates the expression and splicing of several target transcripts.

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Codon

MARCH 12, 2023

“The recombinant DNA breakthrough has provided us with a new and powerful approach to the questions that have intrigued and plagued man for centuries. The central dogma is often depicted as DNA→RNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. Biology is a Burrito.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In those early days, politicians and government officials who’d never heard terms like “cytokine storm” and “RNA virus” were suddenly charged with explaining what was happening. The post The Dangers of “Do Your Own Research” and “Believe in Science” appeared first on DNA Science.

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Codon

MARCH 24, 2024

Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on. And given that RNA and lipid nanoparticle synthesis is highly efficient compared to typical bioproduction, it’s likely that the company could have scaled to billions of doses.

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