Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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PLOS: DNA Science

AUGUST 10, 2023

She becomes fascinated with the family curse, which drives her to become a doctor. Ironically, while I was reading The Covenant of Water , the cover story of the July 23 New York Times magazine featured The Vanishing Family , by Robert Kolker. She will fulfill Big Ammachi’s plea and prophecy. It is an unforgettable book.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MARCH 16, 2023

” That means the genome of the doomed fetus-within-a-fetus had lots of copies of certain short DNA sequences that aren’t in the parents’ genomes (“ de novo ” means new). In addition to their roles in development, DNA repeats are used in DNA profiling and are behind a class of inherited diseases.

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Codon

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Today we’re launching Asimov Press , a new publishing venture modeled on Stripe Press , that will produce a newsletter, magazine, and books that feature writing about biology. Newsletters and magazines will be free to read. Steelman: Biotechnology is not a panacea.

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Engineering Molecular Biology Doctors DNA 52

Codon

AUGUST 25, 2024

pestis DNA in the dental pulp of skeletons in various medieval burial sites across Europe, which corresponded to recorded outbreaks, including in cemeteries used exclusively for Black Death victims. Doctors then used their answers to estimate their cause of death. By the 2010s , this debate had been resolved. Cite: Dattani, Saloni.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Some scientists even think it had a virus defense system; “researchers say LUCA likely housed 19 CRISPR genes, which bacteria use to slice up viral threats,” reports Quanta Magazine. DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I remember my mother’s joyous comments in my baby book, thanking doctors Salk and Sabin for inventing polio vaccines. An article in The Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed his claim that his 2-year-old was unable to get antitoxin – a treatment that preceded the vaccine – from white doctors in Atlanta.

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