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What is mCherry and How is it used?

biobide

mCherry is a fluorescent protein that presents a monomeric structure of 236 amino acids and a mass of 26.7 These proteins have revolutionized cell biology with a variety of applications for monitoring cellular processes in vivo , protein tracking, or gene expression studies.

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New machine learning-based single-cell search engine makes cell annotation faster, more efficient

Broad Institute

We wanted to build a tool like that for cell biology. So we took lots of reference single-cell RNA sequencing data from atlases and used our scalable machine learning algorithms to embed all of the gene expression data on these cells into compact vector representations — you can think of these as a signature for each cell.

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

Professor Alan Trounson AO CEO, Executive Director, Cartherics Alan is the past President of the Californian Institute for Regenerative Medicine (2007-2014), the Californian state’s $3 billion stem cell agency driving research in stem cell biology and facilitating the translation of stem cell discoveries into clinical therapies.

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Documenting the mammalian brain using machine learning

Drug Target Review

There is this level of understanding about brains that presently doesn’t exist. Lichtman stated: “Connectomics is the only pathway…If we get to a point where doing a whole mouse brain becomes routine, you could think about doing it in, say, animal models of autism. We know about the outward manifestations of behaviour.

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A New Type of Bookworm: Bringing Patient Perspectives Into the Classroom?

KIF1A

A New Opportunity: the KIF1A Research Network in Action KIF1A.ORG was presented with such an opportunity by teaming up with Dr. Rebecca Shi of Stanford University, who worked to create a research laboratory course for undergraduates in the Stanford Biology department for the Spring 2023 semester. “You elegans neurons”.

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New molecular insights on medical cannabis

Drug Target Review

Autotaxin has lysophospholipase D activity leading to tumor cell growth and motility by lysophosphatidic acid production. The Journal of Cell Biology. Pleotropic Roles of Autotaxin in the Nervous System Present Opportunities for the Development of Novel Therapeutics for Neurological Diseases. 2002 Jul 22;158(2):227–33.

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A T cell receptor immunotherapy against a novel target

Drug Target Review

Our proprietary ImmTAC (Immune Mobilizing Monoclonal TCRs Against Cancer) technology is comprised of a bispecific molecule where the effector end (anti-CD3) is designed to specifically activate the immune system (ie, T cells) against tumour cells to destroy them.