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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

By 1984, he and Brookhaven colleague John Dunn successfully identified and cloned the protein within T7 that was responsible for rapidly copying T7 DNA into many corresponding strands of RNA — a critical step in the bacteriophage’s ability to infect E. coli genome and let the E. coli had no built-in way to shut it off.

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The era of precision neuroscience

Drug Discovery World

Mutations in a gene may cause structural changes in its protein product, which can lead to a loss of function and consequently to the onset of a disease. They also involve multiple mutations in non-coding regions of DNA – the ‘dark genome’ which makes up around 98% of our DNA.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Technologies DNA Sequencing →DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future , by Shendure J. Link DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves" , by Carlson R. Link Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Methods , by Mardis E.R. Link DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap , by Hoose et al.

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