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A different approach: reimagining biology

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Three key members of the team – Dr Raquel Sanches-Kuiper, Vice President of Technology, Dr Matthew Hayes, Chief Technology Officer and John Edgell, Head of Cloud Engineering – explain how the company is doing this and what it means for the advancement of DNA synthesis in the lab. Why enzymatic synthesis? “We

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How nucleolar stress accelerates aging in mice

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For his postdoctoral stay he joined the group of André Nussenzweig, where he started to work on DNA repair, particularly focusing on the role of histone H2AX. Today, several companies have ATR inhibitors at various stages of clinical development, which to a significant extent was influenced by early works from the laboratory.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

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But now, by studying DNA extracted from microbes in the blood of almost 10,000 healthy people, this paper shows that there is no such thing. Read Transcription factors bind to DNA and control gene expression. They tend to “group up” in cells. Molecular Systems Biology. Nature Microbiology. Meeussen J.V.W.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

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Michael Traxlmayr, PhD, Group leader, CD Laboratory for Next-Generation CAR T Cells, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, on: ‘Novel concepts to regulate CAR T cell activity with small molecule drugs in vivo’.

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Measure Cell Metabolism with Microplate Readers | BMG LABTECH

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DNA, proteins, polysaccharides, etc.). Cells require energy for this process. 2 Organisms are categorised based on their anabolism and according to the source used by cells to build-up molecules. Cold Spring Harbor (NY): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. nucleotides, monosaccharides, etc.), doi:10.1101/glycobiology.3e.005

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Transforming high-throughput screening with mass spectrometry

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Lundblad, Drug Design, in Encyclopedia of Cell Biology (Volume 1), Elsevier, 2016. García-Riestra, Application and perspectives of MALDI–TOF mass spectrometry in clinical microbiology laboratories, Microorganisms, 2021, 9: 1539, [link]. References . Attene-Ramos and M. Elsen and J.D. Torres-Sangiao, C. Leal Rodriguez and C.

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Codon Digest: CAR-T Therapy for Neuroblastoma

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Marine sponges were cultured in the laboratory continuously for the first time. Sponge cells double in population quite quickly — around 40 minutes — and could be engineered to manufacture drugs. Read DNA Sequencing & Synthesis *Quantitative analysis of tRNA abundance and modifications by nanopore RNA sequencing.