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Lessons on Starting a Magazine

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All profits will be donated to Malaria Consortium, an organization that vaccinates children against malaria. Hopefully, this essay will provide some direction to those of you who may want to start a magazine or print books of your own. In short, a massive budget isn’t needed to start a magazine. Each book measures 5.5”

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Codon News: Cloned Mongolian Horses

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Read more in IFL Science & Asterisk Magazine 2/ Little Cloned Horse Wild Mongolian horses, called takhi , once roamed the mighty Asian steppes. 3/ A Vaccine for RSV A vaccine called Arexvy, and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline, has been approved by the FDA for adults aged 60 and older. The vaccine was 82.6

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Codon News: Cloned Mongolian Horses

Codon

Read more in IFL Science & Asterisk Magazine 2/ Little Cloned Horse Wild Mongolian horses, called takhi , once roamed the mighty Asian steppes. 3/ A Vaccine for RSV A vaccine called Arexvy, and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline, has been approved by the FDA for adults aged 60 and older. The vaccine was 82.6

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The First Patented G.M.O.

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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. “I simply shuffled genes, changing bacteria that already existed,” said Chakrabarty in an interview with People magazine.

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Welcome to Asimov Press

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Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. Today we’re launching Asimov Press , a new publishing venture modeled on Stripe Press , that will produce a newsletter, magazine, and books that feature writing about biology. Newsletters and magazines will be free to read.

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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. MenAfriVac is a meningococcal vaccine that remains active, without refrigeration, for up to four days and has significantly boosted vaccine coverage in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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This week: A way to measure a transgene’s expression in the brain using ultrasound, a DNA sequencing method that uses 1000x less reagents, and base editors get even smaller. An engineered version of this protein can convert DNA bases with efficiencies up to 92%. so this Digest will be published more irregularly.

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