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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. Now, a team of MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers has discovered how STING activates those two pathways.

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s “Eruption” is Riveting, but with a Shaky Genetic Foundation

PLOS: DNA Science

Crichton had an MD from Harvard Medical School, but he never practiced medicine. ” The explanation continues, and here’s where it ceases to make sense, to anyone who knows anything about DNA, genes, and genomes. TMV is a common pathogen used in early molecular biology research. He was too busy creating.

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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: 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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A clinical genomicist harnesses team-based science to help rare-disease patients

Broad Institute

These stories and diagnoses, made possible by clinical genomics labs around the world analyzing DNA from patients and sharing their findings with each other to improve medical care, werent always so common. She is also the chief genomics officer at Mass General and a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.

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