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Scaling Phage Therapy

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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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The Dangers of Mirrored Life

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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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Codon Digest: Moore's Law

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Link A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth. Link DNA storage in thermoresponsive microcapsules for repeated random multiplexed data access. Link Semi-rational evolution of a recombinant DNA polymerase for modified nucleotide incorporation efficiency. Nucleic Acids Research.

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Codon Digest: GPT-4 Controls a Robot

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Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. coli DNA using a Retro-Cascorder.

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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

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Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. These ribonucleoproteins also caused a lower immune response compared to the viruses, and are much easier to make in the lab. Nature Communications. Nature Communications. The New Yorker.

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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

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Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. These ribonucleoproteins also caused a lower immune response compared to the viruses, and are much easier to make in the lab. Nature Communications. Nature Communications. The New Yorker.

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