2013 DNA Virus 
PLOS: DNA Science
MAY 16, 2024
Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed. ” I’ve long thought that SARS-CoV-2, or an immediate viral predecessor, emerged years before 2019 – at least as far back as 2013.
Drug Target Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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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Drug Target Review
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 1 Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for in vivo gene delivery for the treatment of various human diseases. Molecular therapy 21 , 109-118 (2013). Grimm D, et al.
Drug Target Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
Infectious agent includes bacteria, virus, fungi, and parasites, and they are capable of causing disease in a living organism. I had earlier proposed the use of Palmatine and Silver Nitrate in the efficacy against the RNA structure of the COVID-19 virus. We discovered it is highly effective and environmentally friendly. Guillermo, S.,
Codon
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Some scientists even think it had a virus defense system; “researchers say LUCA likely housed 19 CRISPR genes, which bacteria use to slice up viral threats,” reports Quanta Magazine. DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids.
PLOS: DNA Science
JUNE 13, 2024
The virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, home of a premiere research institute that focuses on viruses. 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. An altered virus could have escaped. Coincidence?
Codon
MAY 22, 2023
And experiments at Tune Therapeutics showed that CRISPR epigenome editing — which doesn’t cut DNA at all, but merely silences genes by adding chemical groups to them — can curb “bad cholesterol” by more than 50% in monkeys. These tools do not cut or nick DNA, and so they may be safer than other options.
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