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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

Base editing, which Lius team developed in 2016, is a gene editing technique that directly converts an individual DNA base pair into a different base pair. In 2016, he became a core institute member at the Broad Institute.

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Perfume from Extinct Flowers, Thanks to Ancient DNA and Synthetic Biology

PLOS: DNA Science

“Meet Invisible Woods: a clean, refreshing scent revived from extinct flower DNA ,” beneath an image of “origin flower” Wendlandia angustifolia. • compare the DNA sequence to similar genes in other species. • tweak a lab-made copy of the DNA sequence using clues from other plant species.

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DNA Barcodes Could Streamline Search for New Drugs to Combat Cancer

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

Instead of the black, printed stripes of the Universal Product Codes (UPCs) that we see on everything from package deliveries to clothing tags, they used short, unique snippets of DNA to label cells. DNA barcoding has already empowered single-cell analysis, including for nerve cells in the brain. 2016 Feb 29. Nat Biotechnol.

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The Biotech Startup Contraction Continues… And That’s A Good Thing

LifeSciVC

Beyond simply backing great science (separating the wheat from the chafe), setting a company up properly is critical, and early choices can get locked into the DNA of the company. Some continue to do so today, unfortunately, but there appears to be less of it happening. Second, great teams of truly experienced leaders are scarce.

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Why Sarepta’s most recent failure in DMD was entirely predictable

DrugBaron

Sarepta is no stranger to controversy, following the decision of the US regulator to approve the company’s earlier product, eteplirsen, which induces exon-skipping to improve expression of dystrophin protein in individuals who carry the mutant gene, as Exondys 51 back in 2016.

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Can Plants Really “See”?

Codon

In 2016, researchers František Baluška and Stefano Mancuso suggested that ocelli could also explain Boquila ’s uncanny shape-shifting ability, positing that these “tiny eyes” may actually be capable of sight. Here is a time-lapse video of a plant moving in response to changing sunlight.)

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Key considerations before commencing cell line development

Drug Target Review

After binding, the transposase enzyme will excise the flanked section of DNA (termed the transposon) and insert it into sites in the genome at specific target sequences. An example of the former includes a report in the journal Nature of a new tool that can increase the amount of DNA that can be inserted using CRISPR-Cas9 technology.