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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. ” I’ve long thought that SARS-CoV-2, or an immediate viral predecessor, emerged years before 2019 – at least as far back as 2013. But I think about that time often, and the warning that it sounded.

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Women in Stem with Dr Emily Leproust

Drug Target Review

After some time in that role and launching several products, I received a call from Bill Banyai and Bill Peck, or ‘The Bills’ as we call them, who were building a company around technology that creates DNA by ‘writing’ it on a silicon chip. Twist was officially founded in 2013. At that time synesthetic biology wasn’t cool.

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Addressing increasingly resistant drugs by infectious agents

Drug Target Review

I had earlier proposed the use of Palmatine and Silver Nitrate in the efficacy against the RNA structure of the COVID-19 virus. 2013): Exploring the Trypanosoma brucei Hsp83 Potential as a Target for Structure Guided Drug Design, PLOS Neglected Tropical disease. We discovered it is highly effective and environmentally friendly.

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The Dangers of Mirrored Life

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DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids. Across the tree of life, organisms strictly require exactly one of the two chiral forms of their molecular building blocks — amino acids, nucleotides of RNA and DNA. 4 As far as we know, right-handed proteins never occur naturally.

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Cave Coronavirus in Wuhan Lab Seeded COVID – The Truth Has Always Been Out There, in the Genetics

PLOS: DNA Science

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. The Likely Predecessor of SARS-CoV-2 – From my Past Blog Posts I wrote 100+ DNA Science blog posts during the pandemic about the virus.

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A Molecular Portrait of ALS and FTD

Drug Target Review

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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ATUZAGINSTAT

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gingivalis DNA was detected in postmortem cortices from people with AD and healthy controls, and in CSF of AD patients ( Jan 2019 news on Dominy et al., gingivalis infection led to the appearance of bacterial DNA in the brain, increased brain Aβ42 production, neuroinflammation, and hippocampal degeneration. and Europe.