Codon

JULY 27, 2023

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. And that’s how I learned that there are published books that contain entire chromosome sequences.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. And that’s how I learned that there are published books that contain entire chromosome sequences.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 11, 2024

In the classic film Jurassic Park (JP) from 1993, disasters unfurl at a theme park populated with dinosaurs cloned from reptile DNA in mosquitoes fossilized in amber, with modern frog DNA filling in gaps. The animals were cloned from DNA in bits of preserved ear bones, and doctored a bit. million to 11,700 years ago.

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Codon

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Today we’re launching Asimov Press , a new publishing venture modeled on Stripe Press , that will produce a newsletter, magazine, and books that feature writing about biology. Book projects will launch in 2024. Newsletters and magazines will be free to read.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Neural networks easily spot patterns across vast libraries of books and internet articles to learn — or at least imitate — the inner workings of language. The same model can also generate brand-new DNA sequences at the scale of yeast chromosomes or small bacterial genomes. Like ChatGPT, Evo 2 is a large language model.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I remember my mother’s joyous comments in my baby book, thanking doctors Salk and Sabin for inventing polio vaccines. My 500th post here at DNA Science , from 2023, was In Celebration of Vaccines – for good reason. The post Removing The CDC Vaccine Assessment Tool Will Do Harm appeared first on DNA Science.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

That tragedy lies behind the riveting medical detective story of “The Dressmaker’s Mirror,” an excellent new book by geneticist Susan Weiss Liebman, research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her doctor said this was because she was 6 months pregnant. Her heart had stopped. But still no hits.

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Codon

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Most Deadly Infectious Disease “Each successive episode of bleeding left him weaker than before,” wrote Mary Doria Russell of Doc Holliday, the gunslinging gambler, in her eponymous book, Doc. Published in 1971, the book contains unsparing descriptions of Holliday’s deteriorating medical condition.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Willy Chertman reviews The Pursuit of Parenthood , a book about the history of IVF and reproductive technologies. 3 In their book, Marsh and Ronner contrast the positive public reaction to Rock’s work with the hostility that emerged decades later, both to IVF and to research involving human embryos.

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