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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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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

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However, they plod along as they clone plasmids—the loops of DNA that biologists use to manipulate and study organisms—because propagating them relies, in part, on the pace at which cells grow and divide. Most medicines, including insulin and semaglutide (the weight loss drug), are made using DNA cloning. However, E.

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Women in Stem with Joanne Kanaan

Drug Target Review

When choosing my bachelor’s degree, the choice was between pursuing a career in biology or in computer science. Biology won that battle, and I pursued a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 2

Drug Discovery World

Klaus Wagenbauer, PhD, Founder & CEO, Plectonic, on: ‘Programmable DNA-origami-based T cell engagers: PTE’. Alessa Schaffrath, Doctoral Student, UKE Hamburg, on: ‘Transgenic llama mice – a fast and flexible single domain discovery tool’.

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Welcome to Asimov Press

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Molecular biology, as the field came to be called 3 , pushed biology from an object of study, driven forward by gentleman scientists and precocious country clergymen, into a tool with which to solve urgent problems. Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Steelman: Biotechnology is not a panacea.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

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Some algorithms simply look for important similarities between phage and bacterial DNA sequences, a signal of the extensive gene-swapping that goes on when a particular virus and bacteria have shared history. Left) A molecular structure of bacteriophage T4, which infects E. The tech for this process already exists.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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Jasmine has a background in neuroscience and genetic manipulation, with early works focused on using a combined structural and molecular biology approach to assess disease-associated proteins implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Bioinformatics is all about bringing together different areas of knowledge.