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Coronavirus doctor's diary: Trying out tech that may help make worship Covid-secure

The Pharma Data

He picked up the virus right at the start of the pandemic and had a relentless and gruelling illness followed by a lingering debilitation that has lasted over six months. Since early July, an online booking system has been in place. Or read the previous online diary entry: Will universities be able to avoid spreading the virus?

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Coronavirus: NHS England scales back private sector deal

The Pharma Data

Doctors’ bodies have stressed the need to make sure the NHS can access beds, with millions waiting for treatment. But this block booking has cost an estimated £400 million a month, whether or not the facilities were used. CARE HOMES: The forgotten frontline struggling to protect residents against the killer virus.

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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. The newest FDA-approved gene therapy treats the severe, skin-peeling condition dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB).

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Is Recent Gene Therapy Setback for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Déjà vu All Over Again?

PLOS: DNA Science

In the final chapter of my 2012 book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It , I predicted that the technology would soon expand well beyond the rare disease world. Lumping gene and cell therapies together isn’t very helpful – the cell-based ones are mostly doctored T cells to treat cancer.

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Bioprospecting in Dental Tartar from Neanderthals for Novel Antibiotics and Revisiting the Discovery of Penicillin

PLOS: DNA Science

The computational process is like cutting up a dictionary, a bible, and a textbook into multi-page pieces, mixing them, and then consulting the words at the beginnings and ends of the unbound pages to reconstruct the three books. ” They liken the strategy to “a billion-piece jigsaw puzzle.”

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. 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. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. 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. ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16.