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The Dawn of Molecular Genetics: A Glimpse of History in a Textbook from 1952

PLOS: DNA Science

Treasure from 1952, Just Before Watson and Crick’s Paper A pile of old biology books to me is like a toy store to a child. I went to Shaun’s the next morning, flipped through a few books, and without hesitation loaded them all into the trunk of my car. Published by W.H. Beautiful black and white sketches adorn the pages.

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Empowering scientists in the genomic revolution

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Breeding Better Butternut Squash – and a Thanksgiving Recipe

PLOS: DNA Science

Here at DNA Scienc e a few years ago, I shared The Peaceable Genomes of Pumpkins. The situation is a little like reading a book review or CliffsNotes (yes, they still exist) to get the main plot points (QTLs) compared to reading the entire book (the genome sequence). But I’m still a biologist at heart.

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Kickstarting the use of AI for biotechs: part two

Drug Target Review

2 AlphaFold 3 has been built to model DNA, RNA and smaller molecules (ligands). Google DeepMind’s new AI can model DNA, RNA, and ‘all life’s molecules’. He has published several papers and two books and has twelve issued patents. There are several technologies and specific tools being rolled out in this area. Alphafold 3.0:

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

My now decade-old book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy who Saved It , told the stories of children who had received one-time deliveries of working copies of genes, to compensate for their mutations. This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. RDEB is inherited from two carrier parents.

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Twist Bioscience Announces Pricing of a $300 Million Upsized Public Offering of Common Stock

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are acting as joint book-running managers. Twist may also use a portion of the net proceeds to in-license, acquire or invest in complementary businesses or products. Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Cowen and Company, LLC and Evercore Group L.L.C. Baird & Co. Incorporated is acting as lead manager.

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Code breaking and the Human Genome Project

The Open Targets Blog

Since the operations at ‘Station X’ became declassified, the wartime work at Bletchley Park including notable individuals such as Alan Turing has become well known in popular films and books. Only later were the first computers established to automate intelligence gathering.

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