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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

Making medicine The T7 technology has also had immediate impacts in industry, with more than 900 biotech and pharmaceutical companies licensing it to produce therapeutics and vaccines. He retired from the lab in 2015 and lives with his wife in California, where he still plays tennis at age 88. and around the world.

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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. Their socioeconomic costs are measured in hundreds of billions of dollars per year. This is comparatively easier to accomplish in these diseases because they are relatively monogenic.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2015). FEMS Yeast Research (2015). Link Methods for the directed evolution of proteins , by Packer M.S. & PNAS (2015).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Credit: Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, NCI, NIH | License Last edit: 13 September 2023 Progress in biology is arguably moving faster today than at any point in the course of human history. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2015). FEMS Yeast Research (2015). Nature Reviews Genetics (2015). Nature (2015).

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