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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato April 25, 2024 As night fell on July 20th, 2014, genomicist Christian Happi was at home with his family in Lagos, Nigeria when he received a phone call he would never forget. On October 20th, 2014, as Ebola continued to spread in Guinea and in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, WHO declared Nigeria free of Ebola.

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Enhancing gene therapy with Circio

Drug Target Review

In parallel, we are exploring the technical performance of circVec in other viral vectors, as well as non-viral approaches which we expect will surpass virus-based vector-format as the state-of-the-art solutions for gene therapy in the future. So far, we have successfully expressed circRNA from six different vector types.

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Sosei Heptares’ COVID-19 Program Identifies Potent Broad Spectrum Anti-Viral Small Molecules for Further Development

The Pharma Data

The program is being led by Sosei Heptares and progressed in collaboration with multiple companies including Syngene International, Domainex, Fidelta, o2h Discovery, Piramal, WuXi AppTec and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. 2014), 281, 4085-4096. References. Hilgenfeld, Febs J. Pillaiyar, et al, J. 2016), 59, 6595-6628.

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What Limits a Genome’s Size?

Codon

But those studies were criticized in 2014 when researchers claimed that the earlier methods used “a rough biochemical approach…now considered to be unreliable for accurate genome size determinations.” The HK97 virus, for example, infects E. The New Caledonian fork fern has clearly found a solution to this problem.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

A molecular model showing FtsZ proteins (in green and red), extracted from a microbe called Staphylococcus aureus , constricting a liposome (blue). eLife (2014). The researchers chose to discard genes that encode virus-sensing machinery because the cells would be grown in a sterile laboratory environment. Credit: Szwedziak P.

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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. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16.

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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. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16.