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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

As soon as the initial RNA genome sequence of the pathogen that would be named SARS-CoV-2 was published, CDC and other organizations began developing diagnostic tests. • identifies parts of the virus to target to provoke an immune response from a vaccine. Work on vaccines ensued too. It closed a year ago.

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Scientists discover new antiviral defense system in bacteria

Broad Institute

It’s been very exciting to integrate genetics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology approaches in one study to understand this fascinating molecular system.” In humans and plants, the STAND ATPase proteins fight infection by recognizing patterns in a pathogen itself or in the cell’s response to infection.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

When doctors sequenced the DNA and RNA found in Alice’s blood and synovial fluid—the liquid that surrounds and lubricates joints—they found abnormally low levels of genes encoding iron-storing proteins and high levels of epidermal growth factor receptor RNA. At least nine laboratories outside the U.S.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

Codon

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. 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. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.