The Connected Lab

JANUARY 27, 2021

The automation of processes, workflows, and data enables laboratories to reduce downtime, increase scalability, and optimize efficiency. Automation provides the time and space for biotech R&D laboratories to focus on innovations and improvements, which is crucial to a laboratory’s success.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Reading DNA The first step in detecting a novel pathogen is recognizing it as an anomaly amidst a noisy background of other material. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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ASPET

MARCH 20, 2024

DNA topoisomerase IIβ (TOP2β/180; 180 kDa) is a nuclear enzyme that regulates DNA topology by generation of short-lived DNA double-strand breaks primarily during transcription. TOP2β/180 can be a target for DNA damage-stabilizing anticancer drugs, whose efficacy is often limited by chemoresistance.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BASE10 Genetics and DNA Link today announced their collaboration on a research project to evaluate the usability of DNA Link ‘ s AccuFind COVID-19 IgG antibody test in a healthcare setting. Study will expand access to antibody testing outside of laboratory settings. About DNA Link, Inc.

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Broad Institute

MAY 14, 2024

William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impacts of Studier’s development, in the 1980s, of an efficient and scalable technology to produce mass amounts of RNA and proteins in laboratories that is widely used today all over the world.

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sptlabtech

JUNE 9, 2023

However, with so many individual processes involved in NGS library preparation, you might think that automating this workflow requires several instruments costing large amounts of laboratory space. Enter firefly ®. What benefits can you expect to see from making the switch to automated liquid handling with firefly?

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

After some time in that role and launching several products, I received a call from Bill Banyai and Bill Peck, or ‘The Bills’ as we call them, who were building a company around technology that creates DNA by ‘writing’ it on a silicon chip. We’ve miniaturised the chemical process to making DNA and synthesize or ‘write’ DNA on a silicon chip.

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PLOS: DNA Science

APRIL 20, 2023

DNA is a sleek double helix, with “rungs” consisting of a purine base paired with a smaller pyrimidine base: adenine (A) with thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C). . ” DNA encodes amino acid sequences comprising proteins, which impart traits. Watson and F.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

MARCH 11, 2014

Credit: Jane Ades, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Type 2 diabetes (T2D) tends to run in families, and over the last five years the application of genomic technologies has led to discovery of more than 60 specific DNA variants that contribute to risk.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 16, 2024

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. Many of the links below are to some of the 100+ DNA Science posts that I wrote during the pandemic. But I think about that time often, and the warning that it sounded.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 17, 2024

Dr Chowell spent a year as a visiting graduate student at the Moe Win Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. During residency, he conducted laboratory research with Dr Timothy Chan investigating predictors of response to immunotherapy as part of the American Board of Radiology Holman Research pathway.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

Researchers from Columbia University and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have elucidated a method to produce large quantities of the receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein uses to bind to the surface of human cells.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For example, once considered incurable and terminal, patients with sickle cell disease may reach new summits in their lives with gene editing technologies such as CRISPR to repair affected DNA and, in some cases, functionally cure the condition. Modifying and expanding the cells in a GMP laboratory.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Related links Merkin Prize Inaugural Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to Dr. Marvin Caruthers for developing technology that efficiently synthesizes DNA The inaugural Richard N. Caruthers was announced as the winner in June for his development, in 1981, of an efficient, automated technology for synthesizing DNA.

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Codon

JUNE 30, 2024

Modern biotechnology began in 1972 when biochemists at Stanford University spliced together DNA from two different organisms. The race to exploit recombinant DNA technology was on. Stanley Cohen’s laboratory bench from 1973. General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. Join Asimov Press.

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Codon

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN, a sprawling particle physics laboratory that cost more than $10 billion to build. This last variable could be just about anything; there are proteins that bind to other proteins (like antibodies), cut other proteins (proteases), or bind DNA (transcription factors).

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DrugBank

MARCH 28, 2024

Astronauts face a myriad of ongoing and long-term risks that include reduced muscle mass and bone density loss, accelerated cancer cell metastasizing, and DNA damage.   The primary hazards in space, such as microgravity and cosmic radiation, have serious implications for human health.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Working at the famed Pasteur Institute, the duo began by figuring out how best to culture mycobacteria — a seemingly simple, but essential first step, given how no one at the time had yet come up with an effective way of growing these bacteria in the laboratory. Many more could emerge as machine learning tools improve.

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Codon

JUNE 25, 2024

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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Codon

AUGUST 26, 2024

Brian Wang (co-founder of the nonprofit Panoplia Laboratories ) outlines his approach to making broad-spectrum antivirals. Last year, several colleagues and I joined these efforts by co-founding Panoplia Laboratories , a nonprofit organization developing broad-spectrum antivirals using tools from synthetic biology.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Advances in DNA and RNA-focused molecular diagnostic methods have made blood-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests a reality, but not for all patients. His more than 30 years of experience ranges from start-ups such as Exact Sciences and Good Start Genetics to established multinationals such as Abbott Laboratories.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JULY 3, 2023

A research team led by Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, PhD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has made an important advancement to address one of the major challenges in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, also known as liquid biopsy.

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LifeSciVC

APRIL 26, 2024

Beyond simply backing great science (separating the wheat from the chafe), setting a company up properly is critical, and early choices can get locked into the DNA of the company. Some continue to do so today, unfortunately, but there appears to be less of it happening. Second, great teams of truly experienced leaders are scarce.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

Unlike gene editing, this “epigenetic” editing does not modify the underlying DNA sequence, but it should switch the gene off permanently, which means that this could be a one-time treatment. Like Cas9, ZFPs can serve as guide proteins to direct the tool to a target site in DNA.

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DrugBaron

JANUARY 8, 2021

The underlying assumption of most gene therapy procedures, irrespective of the disease being targeted, is that restoration of a wild-type DNA sequence will alone be sufficient to normalise the phenotype of the individual. Surely, then, a correct set of DNA plans will ensure a correctly functioning cell?

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Codon

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN, a sprawling particle physics laboratory that cost more than $10 billion to build. This last variable could be just about anything; there are proteins that bind to other proteins (like antibodies), cut other proteins (proteases), or bind DNA (transcription factors).

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BMG Labtech

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Whether it is determining concentrations of molecules like proteins or DNA, looking at enzyme kinetics for crucial reactions, or measuring something as fundamental as cell growth, you will find references to absorbance or optical density measurements. Optical density is also widely used for many scientific applications.

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addgene Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a single stranded, Parvoviridae DNA virus, packaged in a non-enveloped icosahedral capsid, that can be used to express genes of interest in cell and animal models. This post was contributed by guest blogger Didem Goz Ayturk with edits and updates from Addgenies Karen Guerin and Susanna Stroik.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 5, 2023

However, some groups will decide to complete this stage within their own laboratories. After binding, the transposase enzyme will excise the flanked section of DNA (termed the transposon) and insert it into sites in the genome at specific target sequences. We talk about personalised medicine; how about personalised host cell lines?

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Alta Sciences

APRIL 16, 2024

Gene therapy requires DNA and/or RNA delivery and analysis, and while most ongoing research involves therapies being delivered in vivo via adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors, other in vivo delivery methods are on the rise. The process utilizes short synthetic DNA fragments called primers to choose a section of the genome to be amplified.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers from the Laboratory of Bacteriology at The Rockefeller University have now found that bacteria sense phages by a defensive response named CBASS (cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signalling system) which detects viral RNA. Its presence elsewhere would indicate something is wrong. But what, exactly?”

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Drug Target Review

JULY 24, 2023

In addition, we have concluded that the gene product is an apicpolast RNA polymerase sigma factor because of the localisation of the gene product, ApSIGMA, in the apicoplast interaction with apicoplast promoter DNA sequences, and the activity of an ApSIGMA- E.coli _RpoS chimeric sigma factor protein.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids. Across the tree of life, organisms strictly require exactly one of the two chiral forms of their molecular building blocks — amino acids, nucleotides of RNA and DNA. 4 As far as we know, right-handed proteins never occur naturally.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

5 Cytology-based profiling can facilitate antibiotic discovery efforts and, these assays assess cell cycle progression, nuclear and mitochondrial DNA content, mitochondrial DNA replication, nuclear DNA damage, mitochondrial membrane potential, and lysosome structure and function. References: Antunes Luisa (2023).

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KIF1A

MAY 4, 2024

Her undergraduate research focused on lipid metabolism of NASH at UCSD Medical School and DNA breakage and repair mechanism at Scripps Research. During her undergraduate studies, she worked on heart disease research in Chi Kueng Lam’s laboratory at the University of Delaware. She graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S.

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Codon

JULY 11, 2023

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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sptlabtech

JUNE 9, 2023

However, with so many individual processes involved in NGS library preparation, you might think that automating this workflow requires several instruments costing large amounts of laboratory space. What benefits can you expect to see from making the switch to automated liquid handling with firefly?

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