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The democratisation of cell and gene therapy

Drug Discovery World

DNA purification “Plasmid DNA is an incredibly important part of molecular biology”, says Hummersone. He says: “What we are seeing from a molecular biology perspective is that the genetic material that we want to pack into viral vectors is becoming increasingly complicated.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. Transcription factors are proteins that bind to DNA and control gene expression.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. Transcription factors are proteins that bind to DNA and control gene expression.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Such contaminants could have the same toxic effects as the bacterial infection, or provoke a severe immune response in the patient, and therefore the phage mixtures must go through extensive purification and testing procedures. Left) A molecular structure of bacteriophage T4, which infects E.

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