The Pharma Data

JANUARY 11, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccines work by teaching the immune system to protect against the virus, experts said. Neither of the two vaccines approved in the United States — made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — contains the live virus. “That means it never converts into DNA,” Dr. M.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 4, 2023

Over time, the mineralized microbes of tooth tartar come to comprise a mouthful of tiny fossils, including snippets of degraded bacterial DNA. ” But long DNA molecules fray as they’re copied as bacteria reproduce, from ancient times leaving pieces too small to match entries in DNA databases from modern species.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 1, 2023

This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. “Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed. DEB has been a candidate for a gene therapy since 2002.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

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. From McKyton et al.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

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. From McKyton et al.

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Codon

JULY 21, 2024

And whereas it used to be costly for breeders to select for traits beyond the needs of their industry, the falling costs of advanced genomic selection techniques—breeding using DNA sequence data—make it increasingly fast and feasible. research universities, are responsible for the oversight and management of animal studies.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In those early days, politicians and government officials who’d never heard terms like “cytokine storm” and “RNA virus” were suddenly charged with explaining what was happening. The post The Dangers of “Do Your Own Research” and “Believe in Science” appeared first on DNA Science.

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Codon

MARCH 7, 2024

First attributed to malignant vapors and miasmas , a young French doctor named Charles Laveran linked it to a parasite in the 19th century. Rieux, the doctor in Camus’ novel The Plague , muses that ‘A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end.’

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 21, 2021

The test valuates mitochondrial DNA levels. When mitochondrial DNA, normally found inside cells, in the mitochondria, spills into the bloodstream, it signals that a particular type of violent cell death is occurring. They measured the patients’ mitochondrial DNA levels on the first day of their hospital stays. found in the U.K.

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Codon

AUGUST 25, 2024

This led some to believe that the Black Death was caused by a different pathogen, perhaps anthrax or a virus like influenza or even Ebola. 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.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

JANUARY 5, 2016

The RNA is preprogrammed to find a distinct short sequence of DNA and deliver the enzyme, which acts like a scalpel to slice the sequence out of the genome. Doctors prescribe opiates to control many kinds of pain , but opiates are also a source of great current societal concern, with a steadily increasing incidence of U.S.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The same model can also generate brand-new DNA sequences at the scale of yeast chromosomes or small bacterial genomes. AI Architectures Before explaining how Evo 2 could make bioengineering more predictable, it helps to first understand how AI models actually “learn” the language of DNA.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Influenza incidence and severity are increasing , against a backdrop of novel drifts (small genetic changes) and shifts (larger changes) to the virus, all against a backdrop of novel infection pathways, such as birds to cows to people. The mRNA in COVID vaccines tells cells to produce the virus’s spike protein.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Her doctor said this was because she was 6 months pregnant. After doctors persistently attributed Diane’s fatigue, weakness, cough, and labored breathing to bronchitis, pneumonia, and a nebulous “virus,” she was finally diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy (an enlarged heart) at age 57. Her heart had stopped.

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Codon

APRIL 4, 2025

Either way, young James set out for the doctor’s home to receive the world’s first vaccine. People who had been infected with the virus were easily recognizable, for they carried scars where inflamed pustules had once blistered. ” Smallpox sufferers spread the virus to between three and six other people on average.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Researcher Jerome Horwitz at the Michigan Cancer Foundation developed it as a potential cancer treatment by chemically-modifying thymine, a DNA building block. Since zidovudine failed to interfere with DNA-to-DNA replication, Ostertag wondered if it could block RNA-to-DNA replication instead. In South Africa, 12.6

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 12, 2022

The product under assault in that litigation is a vaccine to prevent shingles – a disease caused by the same virus that also causes chicken pox. As the name of the MDL indicates, the active ingredient in this vaccine is an enervated live virus. “It 2022 WL 952179, at *2. “It 2022 WL 952179, at *2. 1, 2021)).

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