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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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DNA sequences are designed on a computer, and it takes a dozen or more clicks to change a single nucleotide. DNA sequences are also checked by hand, so it’s easy to make a mistake. The tool outputs a DNA sequence that encodes all the required enzymes. Anyone who has tried to engineer a cell knows how tedious it can be.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

DNA sequences are designed on a computer, and it takes a dozen or more clicks to change a single nucleotide. DNA sequences are also checked by hand, so it’s easy to make a mistake. The tool outputs a DNA sequence that encodes all the required enzymes. Anyone who has tried to engineer a cell knows how tedious it can be.

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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

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Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. 📎 Papers Strands of DNA can be used to build molecular logic gates. ” Quanta Magazine. Stahl et al. on bioRxiv. Nature Communications.

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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

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Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. 📎 Papers Strands of DNA can be used to build molecular logic gates. ” Quanta Magazine. Stahl et al. on bioRxiv. Nature Communications.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

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Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on. If the technology proved successful in human beings, it would take Moderna weeks, not years, to make a new product,” wrote Catherine Elton in Boston Magazine.

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Codon: Notes on Progress #2

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“The recombinant DNA breakthrough has provided us with a new and powerful approach to the questions that have intrigued and plagued man for centuries. The central dogma is often depicted as DNARNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. Biology is a Burrito.

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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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