Codon

JULY 27, 2023

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. A real book that contains the full sequence of human chromosome 21. From Ling B et al.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

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. A real book that contains the full sequence of human chromosome 21. From Ling B et al.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. The vaccine printer can make lots of different types of vaccines, including protein, DNA, and mRNA ones, but I’m sure this is all quite expensive right now. From Zhang et al.

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Codon

APRIL 30, 2023

Yeast die for two reasons: Either their nucleolus (where the DNA is kept) degrades and dies, or their mitochondria whimpers out and they stop making energy. The vaccine printer can make lots of different types of vaccines, including protein, DNA, and mRNA ones, but I’m sure this is all quite expensive right now. From Zhang et al.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As genetics morphed into genomics, artificial intelligence stepped in, layering the combinatorial information of comparative genomics onto DNA sequences. Train an algorithm on the DNA sequences of a known disease-causing gene, then search for identical or highly similar sequences in cells from other individuals to assist diagnosis.

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Codon

MARCH 12, 2023

“The recombinant DNA breakthrough has provided us with a new and powerful approach to the questions that have intrigued and plagued man for centuries. The central dogma is often depicted as DNA→RNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. Biology is a Burrito.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Short DNA strands were discovered that can specifically and tightly bind to zinc and cadmium ions. Perhaps there is now a way to use DNA to extract metals: You could fuse the DNA strands to an antibody, coat them onto electronics, and then use a column to isolate the DNA:metal compounds? coli DNA using a Retro-Cascorder.

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Codon

MAY 30, 2023

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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Codon

MAY 30, 2023

This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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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

Influenza incidence and severity are increasing , against a backdrop of novel drifts (small genetic changes) and shifts (larger changes) to the virus, all against a backdrop of novel infection pathways, such as birds to cows to people. The mRNA in COVID vaccines tells cells to produce the virus’s spike protein.

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PLOS: DNA Science

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A few weeks ago, I noticed a surprising metric when posting my weekly DNA Science blog – at year’s end, I’d hit #500! The Birth of DNA Science When St. Martin’s Press was about to publish my book about gene therapy in 2012, my agent urged me to start blogging. We renamed it 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. Dr. McNally checked Diane’s DNA for new mutations as they were discovered. Liebman’s sister Diane.

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Codon

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Many students are taught that the Central Dogma is simply “DNA → RNA → protein.” In 1956, Crick was working on a lecture that would bring together what was then known about the “flow of information” between DNA, RNA, and protein in cells.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, cloning DNA molecules and inserting them into cells — a process required for basically all experiments in molecular biology — takes up to a week of work. Perhaps you’ve seen this chart before, which shows the falling costs of DNA sequencing over the last two decades. If we could get E.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 25, 2024

The book has a conversational tone, an easy read even for the science-shy. Yet the book is also global in scope. A virus that directly attacks the immune response presents a special challenge. The 1918 virus was H1N1, and the one behind a million deaths in 1957, H2N2. Ebola virus fever is horrific.

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