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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. A new paper from Michael Elowitz’s group at Caltech reports engineered RNA exporters that “efficiently and specifically package and secrete target RNA molecules from mammalian cells within protective nanoparticles.” No longer.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. A new paper from Michael Elowitz’s group at Caltech reports engineered RNA exporters that “efficiently and specifically package and secrete target RNA molecules from mammalian cells within protective nanoparticles.” No longer.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Such contaminants could have the same toxic effects as the bacterial infection, or provoke a severe immune response in the patient, and therefore the phage mixtures must go through extensive purification and testing procedures. UTIs, diabetic foot ulcers). I cover this more extensively in The Good Virus.

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