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To help his daughter living with an ultra-rare disorder, this dad brought together a squad of genetic detectives

Broad Institute

By Leah Eisenstadt, Broad Communications October 23, 2024 Credit: Courtesy of the Broadbent family Brian and Julia Broadbent are raising their daughters Claire, top left, and Emma, seated, who is the first person to be diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder caused by the long noncoding RNA CHASERR.

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Revolutionary nanoparticles enable gene-editing in lungs

Drug Target Review

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages.

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Three studies highlight how proteins are altered in multiple cancer types

Broad Institute

In three new studies, researchers including a team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harmonized and analyzed data on proteins, DNA, RNA, as well as clinical data from more than 1,000 patients across nearly a dozen different cancer types. Zamecnik Chair in Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.

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#ScienceSaturday: May 4, 2024

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Later, she developed an interest in the RNA world, specifically focusing on alternative splicing and its correlation with neuron cell properties within and across cell types. Her undergraduate research focused on lipid metabolism of NASH at UCSD Medical School and DNA breakage and repair mechanism at Scripps Research.

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A close research partnership with African scientists helps solve the mystery of malaria-like illnesses

Broad Institute

First author Zoë Levine is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School and graduate student in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad. Tags: Infectious Disease DNA sequencing RNA sequencing Investigating the etiologies of non-malarial febrile illness in Senegal using metagenomic sequencing. Nature Communications.

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CRISPR Cas-9 System Doubles Life Expectancy in Mice with Aggressive Cancers

The Pharma Data

Cas-9 represents the Cas9 protein, an enzyme that cuts foreign DNA. “Operationally, you design a stretch of 20 [nucleotide] base pairs that match a gene that you want to edit,” George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, told the news source. ” Source link.

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