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Cultivated Meat? Let Them Eat Snake

PLOS: DNA Science

Biotechnology has solved many problems, from recombinant DNA and monoclonal antibody-derived drugs, to gene therapy and stem cell transplants, to RNA-based vaccines and genetically modified plants that resist diseases and pesticides. We package them into a range of branded consumer products.” ” Why Did It Have to be Snakes?

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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.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” At least, that’s what every textbook says.

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Optimising AAV capsid purification through improved analytics

Drug Discovery World

This helps ensure a high concentration of loaded capsids and adequate removal of impurities, such as host cell proteins and DNA. In AAV therapeutics, empty capsids are those that are not packaged with the therapeutic DNA. 2016 Jul 5;88(13):6718-25. A crucial part of the AAV workflow is the purification of viral vectors.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Some algorithms simply look for important similarities between phage and bacterial DNA sequences, a signal of the extensive gene-swapping that goes on when a particular virus and bacteria have shared history. Middle and Right) Once a bacteriophage lands on a cell, it injects its DNA through a tube (purple) into the unwilling host.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

Codon

In the case of semaglutide, those cells are Saccharomyces cerevisiae— also known as Baker’s yeast — engineered to secrete a peptide precursor that is later purified, chemically modified, packaged into an injectable or tablet form, and then shipped around the world. Continuing this method may not scale.