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Meet the Flower Designer Who Built a Laboratory In His Home

Codon

Backyard astronomers discovered 42 new planets in 2012 , hobbyist paleontologists discovered the world’s largest dinosaur footprint near the Yorkshire coast in 2021, and Sebastian himself open-sourced protocols that make it easier for scientists to engineer plants. And what genes will I need to engineer these flowers?

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Empowering scientists in the genomic revolution

sptlabtech

Using our innovative true positive displacement technology, firefly is fully compatible with all molecular biology reagents, viscous and volatile, as well as bead suspension, making it an ideal solution for genomics workflows. What benefits can you expect to see from making the switch to automated liquid handling with firefly?

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A surprising new role for a major immune regulator

Broad Institute

STING is primarily on the lookout for DNA, which can indicate either a foreign invader such as a virus or damage to the host tissue or cell. Paul Blainey , the Karl Van Tassel Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, a core institute member of Broad, and a member of the Koch Institute, is also an author of the paper.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

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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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

Kamal Nahas highlights the biological limits on cell division speed and explores how we might engineer cells to grow faster. 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.

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A Protein Printer

Codon

That’s because proteins are made, in the laboratory, using synthetic DNA and cells; and DNA is expensive. Our machine would make proteins without using any DNA or cells. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein.

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A Protein Printer

Codon

That’s because proteins are made, in the laboratory, using synthetic DNA and cells; and DNA is expensive. Our machine would make proteins without using any DNA or cells. All cells make proteins in two steps: DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA, which is then translated into protein.

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