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Gamma delta T cells: a rising star in cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Prior to the founding of IN8bio, from 2014 to 2017, Mr Ho was the Founder and Managing Partner at AlephPoint Capital, a private healthcare investment fund. Regulation of cutaneous malignancy by gammadelta T cells. Mr Ho has worked in the biotechnology industry for almost 20 years. References Fichtner A, Ravens S, Prinz I.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

Sometimes cells don’t take up the DNA, or unforeseen issues with the modified sequence arise—such as off-target mutations, unexpected protein modifications, or disruptions to gene regulation—that send us back to the drawing board. eLife (2014). These setbacks can extend the timeline from days to weeks.

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The Promise of Gas Vesicles

Codon

Even after a half-century of molecular biology research, scientists didn’t know until recently how gas vesicles physically trap gas while occluding water. For more than a century, scientists thought of gas vesicles as little more than a natural curiosity and, later, as a way for microbes to regulate buoyancy.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. And it’s true, but only in an incomplete way.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. And it’s true, but only in an incomplete way.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

.” Foundations Basics of Synthetic Biology →Foundations for engineering biology , by Endy D. Link →A brief history of synthetic biology , by Cameron D.E. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2014). Link Synthetic biology: applications come of age , by Khalil A.S. & PLoS Biology (2017).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

.” Foundations Basics of Synthetic Biology →Foundations for engineering biology , by Endy D. Link →A brief history of synthetic biology , by Cameron D.E. Nature Reviews Microbiology (2014). Link Synthetic biology: applications come of age , by Khalil A.S. & PLoS Biology (2017).

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