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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

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Also, last week’s digest had an error: The country that approved the malaria vaccine was Ghana. Vaccines (basically little fat bubbles filled with mRNA and some dissolvable polymers) were physically printed onto microneedle patches using a robot. The patches have little spikes that help push the vaccines through the skin.

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Codon Digest: Vaccine Printer Go Brrrrr!

Codon

Also, last week’s digest had an error: The country that approved the malaria vaccine was Ghana. Vaccines (basically little fat bubbles filled with mRNA and some dissolvable polymers) were physically printed onto microneedle patches using a robot. The patches have little spikes that help push the vaccines through the skin.

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A Protein Printer

Codon

Scientists at the Institute for Protein Design have crafted proteins that self-assemble into nanomaterials or that can be used as vaccines for the flu and HIV. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein. Some catalyze reactions 30 million times per second.

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Antidepressant Shows Potential for Treating COVID-19

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The speed at which researchers developed effective vaccines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 required unprecedented international cooperation on a scale never seen before. Rollout of approved vaccines is underway in many countries across the globe, giving people hope that the end to the pandemic is finally in sight.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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A Protein Printer

Codon

Scientists at the Institute for Protein Design have crafted proteins that self-assemble into nanomaterials or that can be used as vaccines for the flu and HIV. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein. Some catalyze reactions 30 million times per second.

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