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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

Christian Happi Christian Happi However, in other parts of West Africa , Ebola was spreading, infecting nearly 29,000 people and killing more than 11,000 before the outbreak was contained in 2016. Since 2007, they’d been studying Lassa fever, an often deadly illness caused by infection with the Lassa virus, which is endemic in West Africa.

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s “Eruption” is Riveting, but with a Shaky Genetic Foundation

PLOS: DNA Science

The tale opens at the Hilo Botanical Gardens in 2016. And there the herbicide sat, until in 2016, workers attempting to repackage and seal the material instead caused a leak. TMV is a common pathogen used in early molecular biology research. Newbie chief plant biologist Rachel Sherrill (named for Crichton’s wife?)

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Otto Bayer Award goes to Prof. Ruth Ley PhD

The Pharma Data

Born in 1970, the British and American research scientist has been Director of the Department of Microbiome Research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen since 2016. Before, she was associate professor at Cornell University in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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Sosei Heptares’ COVID-19 Program Identifies Potent Broad Spectrum Anti-Viral Small Molecules for Further Development

The Pharma Data

The program is being led by Sosei Heptares and progressed in collaboration with multiple companies including Syngene International, Domainex, Fidelta, o2h Discovery, Piramal, WuXi AppTec and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. 2016), 59, 6595-6628. References. Hilgenfeld, Febs J. 2014), 281, 4085-4096. Pillaiyar, et al, J.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16. mycoides cell.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16. mycoides cell.