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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Dr Emily Leproust, Founder and CEO, Twist Biopharma In 2015, Dr LeProust was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers for fast-tracking the building blocks of life, and Fast Company named her one of the most creative people in business for synthesising DNA faster than ever. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers.

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Transforming high-throughput screening with mass spectrometry

Drug Discovery World

Büttner, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based high-throughput screening for inhibitors of the cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS, SLAS Discovery, 2020, 25: 372–383, [link]. Zuvela-Jelaska, T. Bretschneider, A.H. Luippold, W. Bischoff and F.H. Weigt, C.A. Parrish, J.A. Krueger, C.A. Oleykowski, A.R. Rendina and C.

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Synthetic Origins

Codon

in physics at Princeton University, he had a remarkable idea: What if it were possible to build a circuit out of DNA, rather than electronics, and use it to “program” a living cell? It really fits perfectly, and it is analogous to chemistry, where you've got synthetic chemistry and analytical chemistry.

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