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Twist was officially founded in 2013. Researchers were able to use our synthetic RNA controls as a reference to verify and validate assays. I was fundraising with my two co-founders and one of the venture capital investors who we met with said that we needed a male CEO with gray hair. At that time synesthetic biology wasn’t cool.
Faye Allison SRG Talent Faye Allison graduated in 2013 with a BSc in Biology and initially started her career in scientific report writing for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. She then moved into recruitment, specifically focusing on the chemicals industry in the UK.
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14 TDP-43 is a DNA and RNA binding protein that regulates the expression and splicing of several target transcripts. Many potential toxic effects have been suggested, including the mis-splicing of the Stathmin-2 RNA transcript. Converging mechanisms in ALS and FTD: disrupted RNA and protein homeostasis.” 79,3 (2013): 416-38.
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In 2013, a Fusarium fungus — called Tropical Race 4 — was identified in Mozambique. In 2016, her team demonstrated that, by adding short snippets of DNA or RNA — which can target and “shut down” the MaMADS regulatory proteins — to bananas, it is possible to slow their ripening. From Elitzur T.
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PNAS (2013). Link A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity , by Jinek M. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2013). Link (Golden Gate assembly) Other Basic Methods & Cloning →Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology , by multiple authors.
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Nature Methods (2013). PNAS (2013). Link A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity , by Jinek M. Link In vitro integration of ribosomal RNA synthesis, ribosome assembly, and translation , by Jewett M.C. Molecular Systems Biology (2013). . & Reinberg D. Cell (2002).
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