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OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Makenzie Kohler October 23, 2023 People of South Asian ancestry around the world have more than double the risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases like diabetes, heart attack, and stroke compared to other populations. Some participants will receive a kit in the mail that they can use to send a saliva sample for DNA analysis.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA. The chemical reactions that he discovered in the early 1980s to accurately and quickly assemble nucleotides into strands of DNA provided an essential element in the development of modern molecular medicine.

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Broad Institute

JANUARY 18, 2024

McAlpine January 18, 2024 Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications One of the new "priming agents" works by preventing immune cells from engulfing tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream. Liquid biopsies promise to transform how cancers are diagnosed, monitored, and treated by detecting DNA that tumors shed into the blood.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Five people treated for pituitary dwarfism decades ago with human growth hormone (hGH) pooled from cadavers have shown cognitive decline reminiscent of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Recombinant DNA technology has since provided a pure source of the hormone. .” More than 85 animal species develop prion diseases.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Genome-wide association studies have great potential for advancing our understanding of the genetic background of diseases, but so far, few association studies have focused on maternal and newborn diseases, and most have been based on predominantly European populations.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 27, 2023

Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 28, 2023

The stakes of their findings are high: a ruptured nucleus can lead to elevated DNA damage that is characteristic of many diseases, including cancer.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 20, 2024

A newly discovered code within DNA -- coined 'spatial grammar' -- holds a key to understanding how gene activity is encoded in the human genome. This breakthrough finding revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

In the new work published today in Nature Biotechnology , the team adapted engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) that they had previously designed to carry base editors — another type of precision gene editor that makes single-letter changes in DNA. By Sarah C.P.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

After some time in that role and launching several products, I received a call from Bill Banyai and Bill Peck, or ‘The Bills’ as we call them, who were building a company around technology that creates DNA by ‘writing’ it on a silicon chip. They had the science and the technology but not the business model. It was right after synbio 1.0

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 12, 2024

Mutations are changes in the molecular 'letters' that make up the DNA code, the blueprint for all living cells. Some of these changes can have little effect, but others can lead to diseases, including cancer.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 31, 2023

Related News Next generation prime editing systems move closer to possible therapeutic applications New CRISPR genome editing system offers a wide range of versatility in human cells Prime editing technologies allow scientists to precisely edit the genome in a variety of ways and could one day be used to treat genetic diseases.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA, which is inherently more stable than DNA, advances the discovery of potentially more powerful, precise therapeutic options to treat cancer and autoimmune, metabolic and infectious diseases.

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PLOS: DNA Science

AUGUST 24, 2023

“Pangenomics” is a newish term, referring to ways that a species’ genome can vary, DNA base by DNA base. I wrote The Age of the Pangenome Dawns here at DNA Science last year, about the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium. A genome of 3,054,832 billion DNA base pairs can vary in many ways.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

These factors are converging to enable both identification of novel infectious diseases as well as microbial resistance, before these threats can impact public health, write a team from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Frontiers in Science. COVID clearly caught us off guard.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 28, 2024

Researchers found that approximately one in 40 human bone marrow cells carry massive chromosomal alterations without causing any apparent disease or abnormality.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MARCH 28, 2024

A new drug has entered the arsenal against Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a genetic disease that affects boys and is challenging to treat. million DNA bases. The exons are nestled amongst the much longer introns, which are DNA sequences that are not represented in the final protein. The gene presents a complex landscape.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

They knew that discovering the genetic cause of her disorder would help them find other people like her, help get the condition formally recognized as a new disease, and help them better advocate for research into new treatments. This is the first human disease caused by loss of one copy of a lncRNA gene.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Already, engineered probiotics have been used to treat metabolic disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and obesity, single-gene conditions like PKU, and bacterial infections common in people who have cystic fibrosis. Or, add genes to arm a host species to resist a specific infectious disease. appeared first on DNA Science.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The work appears today in Science. The scientists found a surprising number and diversity of CRISPR systems, including ones that could make edits to DNA in human cells, others that can target RNA, and many with a variety of other functions. Zhang’s team showed that two of these systems could make short edits in the DNA of human cells.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 23, 2024

We’ve used genomic information in plants alive today to go back in time and paint the most accurate picture possible of Arabica’s long history, as well as determine how modern cultivated varieties are related to each other,” said author Victor Albert, Empire Innovation Professor in the UB Department of Biological Sciences.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The popular view of science consisting of breakthroughs and proofs is not accurate. Vague Definitions and Examples from Nature All genetics textbooks, including mine, relate the convergence of experimental evidence that led Watson and Crick to deduce DNA’s structure. ” Science would explain it, Srb and Owen write.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Lenmeldy adds functional genes that encode the enzyme arylsulfatase A (ARSA) to bone marrow stem cells taken from children who have inherited the disease, but haven’t yet developed symptoms, which typically begin around age 2 or 3. Each of their children would face a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting the disease.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Last week DNA Science covered a setback in a clinical trial of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Also recently, FDA’s Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committe turned down a stem cell treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or motor neuron disease.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Liquid biopsies enable clinicians to find and analyze tumor DNA in a patient’s blood sample to detect cancer early, monitor cancer recurrence, assess the patient’s response to treatment, and measure other clinically important features in real time, without invasive procedures.

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APRIL 20, 2023

DNA is a sleek double helix, with “rungs” consisting of a purine base paired with a smaller pyrimidine base: adenine (A) with thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C). . ” DNA encodes amino acid sequences comprising proteins, which impart traits. Watson and F. As a child, Mendel tended fruit trees.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

MARCH 11, 2014

Credit: Jane Ades, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Type 2 diabetes (T2D) tends to run in families, and over the last five years the application of genomic technologies has led to discovery of more than 60 specific DNA variants that contribute to risk. 2012;7(7):e40972. Link: Accelerating Medicines Partnership.

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KIF1A

MAY 4, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. By talking to groups with these mutations, we may identify other diseases whose patients have KIF1A variants. Wangyang Dai Wangyang is a master student in the M.A.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

My Career I’ve been writing life science tomes for a long time. As genetics morphed into genomics, artificial intelligence stepped in, layering the combinatorial information of comparative genomics onto DNA sequences. AI may quickly assemble a table listing DNA replication enzymes or compile technology timelines.

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KIF1A

JANUARY 20, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. Instead, this is what is called a splicing mutation; it occurs at the boundary between coding DNA that is read into RNA and protein, and noncoding DNA that is excluded.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 8, 2016

Instead of the black, printed stripes of the Universal Product Codes (UPCs) that we see on everything from package deliveries to clothing tags, they used short, unique snippets of DNA to label cells. DNA barcoding has already empowered single-cell analysis, including for nerve cells in the brain. PRISM consists of two key components.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Prostate cancers detected at the local stages, when the disease is limited to the prostate and its immediately surrounding regions, have a nearly 100 percent five-year survival rate. Advances in DNA and RNA-focused molecular diagnostic methods have made blood-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests a reality, but not for all patients.

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KIF1A

APRIL 6, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. When a mutation causes a deletion or duplication of larger areas of DNA, we call it Copy Number Variation. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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KIF1A

JANUARY 13, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. As one cell turns into two, its DNA must be replicated and then pulled apart, so that when the cell divides each has all the DNA it needs to function.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Related links Merkin Prize Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA The inaugural Richard N. Caruthers was announced as the winner in June for his development, in 1981, of an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dr Piotr Trzonkowski, from the University of Gdansk, highlights how TREGs offer hope for personalised medicine in autoimmune diseases. Dr Susanne Rafelski, from the Allen Institute for Cell Science, presents a framework for comprehending cell organisation and variation.

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