Codon

MAY 15, 2023

3/ Prime Editing Spree Prime editors can change DNA in ways that Cas9 — and even base editors — cannot. Known as a "search-and-replace" gene-editing tool, prime editors can delete or replace DNA up to 10,000 bases in length, or substitute one base for another. Read more in Cell. ( #1 , #2 ) (Video credit: Gong Y.

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MAY 15, 2023

3/ Prime Editing Spree Prime editors can change DNA in ways that Cas9 — and even base editors — cannot. Known as a "search-and-replace" gene-editing tool, prime editors can delete or replace DNA up to 10,000 bases in length, or substitute one base for another. Read more in Cell. ( #1 , #2 ) (Video credit: Gong Y.

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Broad Institute

APRIL 3, 2025

Scientists have developed a way to scale up spatial genomics and lower costs By Allessandra DiCorato April 3, 2025 Breadcrumb Home Scientists have developed a way to scale up spatial genomics and lower costs A new computational approach eliminates time-intensive imaging, enabling high-resolution spatial mapping of gene expression in tissue.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 16, 2025

By Allessandra DiCorato January 16, 2025 Credit: Scott Sassone, Broad Communications Tara McDonald (left) and Steve McCarroll (right) are coauthors of a new paper describing a biological mechanism underlying Huntington's disease. The researchers found that DNA tracts with 40 or more CAG repeats grow until they are hundreds of repeats long.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 27, 2025

A genome-wide atlas of cell morphology reveals gene functions By Allessandra DiCorato January 27, 2025 Breadcrumb Home A genome-wide atlas of cell morphology reveals gene functions PERISCOPE, a technique for genome-wide imaging screens, is helping Broad scientists understand the connections between genes and traits. Online January 27, 2025.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5 percent of adult cancers By Allessandra DiCorato February 5, 2025 Breadcrumb Home Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5 percent of adult cancers Targeting the PELO gene could be a way to kill tumor cells in cancers with one of two common genetic mutations.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Building a Circuit Much like electronic circuits, which use wires and transistors to create or process signals, a synthetic gene circuit is a network of biological parts — DNA, RNA, and proteins — that process inputs and generate outputs. Elowitz inserted his assembled DNA into E. 3 Subscribe to Asimov Press.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The same model can also generate brand-new DNA sequences at the scale of yeast chromosomes or small bacterial genomes. AI Architectures Before explaining how Evo 2 could make bioengineering more predictable, it helps to first understand how AI models actually “learn” the language of DNA.

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Broad Institute

MARCH 27, 2025

A Novo Nordisk - Broad collaboration is connecting Denmark-based and Broad researchers By Corie Lok March 27, 2025 Breadcrumb Home A Novo Nordisk - Broad collaboration is connecting Denmark-based and Broad researchers The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease has built a bridge between Danish and Broad scientists.

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SugarCone Biotech

APRIL 8, 2025

The most typical genetic cargo for LNP-mediated in vivo CAR T cell production is messenger RNA (mRNA). Current development efforts that focus on DNA delivery by LNP in vivo are advancing rapidly; large payloads can be accommodated which is very useful. Biotech companies using LNP-based delivery for in vivo CAR T production.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 7, 2025

A clinical genomicist harnesses team-based science to help rare-disease patients By Allessandra DiCorato January 7, 2025 Breadcrumb Home A clinical genomicist harnesses team-based science to help rare-disease patients Heidi Rehm convinced labs and scientists to work together and share data.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

Many students are taught that the Central Dogma is simply “DNA → RNA → protein.” In 1956, Crick was working on a lecture that would bring together what was then known about the “flow of information” between DNA, RNA, and protein in cells.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In January 2025, the incoming Trump administration issued a 90-day freeze on PEPFAR while it conducts a “programmatic efficiencies” review. Researcher Jerome Horwitz at the Michigan Cancer Foundation developed it as a potential cancer treatment by chemically-modifying thymine, a DNA building block. By February, the U.S.

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