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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

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Read A new DNA polymerase variant, called RT-KTq I614Y, can directly detect RNA modifications, including pseudouridine (Ψ) and queuosine (Q). By combining this new variant with standard sequencing methods, it’s possible to identify RNA modifications in a really simple way. Communications Biology. Might be useful!

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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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. Engineered biology has profound potential to change how we live, but the field has become broad, bloated, nebulous. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2009).

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

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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. Engineered biology has profound potential to change how we live, but the field has become broad, bloated, nebulous. Synthesis.cc (2022).

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

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epidermidis , can actually trigger tumor-specific T cells. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. Nature Cell Biology.