LifeSciVC

AUGUST 5, 2024

The genomic capabilities that were brought online for drug discovery (cheaper & faster next-gen DNA sequencing) did not diminish the need for biologists and translational scientists in target and patient selection, respectively. One final parallel to 2001.

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DrugBank

MAY 15, 2024

But as molecular biology has advanced, so too has our approach to finding new drugs. In the early 20th century, the discovery process was largely random , focused on cytotoxic agents that kill cells by disrupting key cellular functions like DNA replication. This method was more about serendipity than science.

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Codon

JULY 17, 2024

I use it to transform—or push DNA into—plant cells. If a company sends me DNA, I can send them back ten engineered plants for a low price, provided they also pay for the APHIS permit to allow me to ship them across state lines. I mean, how did people do molecular biology fifty or one hundred years ago?

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PLOS: DNA Science

AUGUST 22, 2024

” 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. A plant genome consists of DNA, and NOT pieces of 2,4-D, which is a completely unrelated organic acid.

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Codon

JUNE 13, 2024

billion bases of DNA which, if unfurled, would extend for more than 100 meters—taller than the Statue of Liberty. billion bases of DNA, the human genome measures just 2 meters in length when stretched end-to-end. Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Phage have been of interest to scientists as tools to understand fundamental molecular biology, as vectors of horizontal gene transfer and drivers of bacterial evolution, as sources of diagnostic and genetic tools, and as novel therapeutic agents. Its presence elsewhere would indicate something is wrong.

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sptlabtech

JUNE 9, 2023

Using our innovative true positive displacement technology, firefly is fully compatible with all molecular biology reagents, viscous and volatile, as well as bead suspension, making it an ideal solution for genomics workflows. What benefits can you expect to see from making the switch to automated liquid handling with firefly?

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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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Broad Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. Once it detects DNA, it relocates to the Golgi body, where it begins to activate proteins that turn on genes required for interferon production. Paper Cited Liu B, Carlson R, et al.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Some algorithms simply look for important similarities between phage and bacterial DNA sequences, a signal of the extensive gene-swapping that goes on when a particular virus and bacteria have shared history. Left) A molecular structure of bacteriophage T4, which infects E. The tech for this process already exists.

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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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DrugBank

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

1 Present address: Functional Genomics and Metabolism Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. 2 Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA. 3 Research Focus: Network-based drug repositioning strategy to identify drugs targeting obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 19, 2024

The other powerful benefit is that our cell lines can become any of the cell types of the human body – these cells have within their DNA the capability to become any of the more than 200 human cell types which you might want to manufacture. This provides some regulatory advantages, and of course, significant cost advantages.

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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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Elrig

APRIL 29, 2024

Srinivasan has led the development of multiple computational pipelines to process data from different next generation sequencing techniques with applications in oncology, genome editing systems including CRISPR-Cas mediated DNA editing, and ADAR-mediated RNA editing. Bioinformatics is all about bringing together different areas of knowledge.

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Alta Sciences

MARCH 1, 2024

PJ: At Altasciences, we have a range of leading-edge platforms that include ligand binding assays (LBA), NAb, TAb, flow cytometry, and ELISpot, as well as on-site molecular biology instrumentation such as Bio-Rad’s ddPCR system, the NanoDropTM One spectrophotometer, and dedicated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chambers.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Within close propinquity to AstraZeneca’s new centre is the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cancer Research UK and the Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals, among others.

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Codon

MARCH 12, 2023

Notes on Progress is a monthly roundup of papers and ideas about biology and the future. “The recombinant DNA breakthrough has provided us with a new and powerful approach to the questions that have intrigued and plagued man for centuries. Biology is a Burrito. A new base editor to edit mitochondrial DNA.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here. From Ling B et al.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

They’ve just finished sequencing the patient’s genome, but they don’t have “DNA sorting” software. billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible.” You can read all of them here. From Ling B et al.

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The Open Targets Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

via Wikimedia Commons) Right: Copy of a DNA sequence faxed in 1989 from teams working on the Human Genome Project (from the Wellcome Collection archives, Image credit: Helena Cornu)  Assembling a team At the core of this of course were people to provide both the intellectual input and the perseverance to make things happen.

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 11, 2024

When choosing my bachelor’s degree, the choice was between pursuing a career in biology or in computer science. Biology won that battle, and I pursued a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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LifeSciVC

JULY 1, 2024

The central dogma of molecular biology is that information generally (with few exceptions) flows from DNA to RNA to Protein. Here are the twelve pieces of advice for college and early career STEM folks, using scientific metaphors to frame some life lessons I’ve picked up along the way. Remember life’s Central Dogma.

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DrugBaron

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Most proteomics methodology used today provides an enumeration of the major proteins present with poorly validated attempts at quantitation and even less focus on the subtly different variants of each “protein” present in the mixture.

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Codon

JUNE 26, 2023

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

JUNE 26, 2023

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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Dark Matter Blog

JULY 16, 2021

The only subject in school that held my interest was biology. As soon as I learned about DNA and RNA, I wanted to be a molecular biologist. I wanted to use molecular biology to create drugs. Last stops at RNA My last roles in biotech were where my original passion began: DNA and RNA.

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Codon

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Molecular biology, as the field came to be called 3 , pushed biology from an object of study, driven forward by gentleman scientists and precocious country clergymen, into a tool with which to solve urgent problems. Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s.

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BMG Labtech

MARCH 8, 2023

DNA, proteins, polysaccharides, etc.). They are strongly oxidizing and, at high concentrations, are deleterious to cells damaging DNA, proteins and lipids, and eventually leading to cell death. Alberts B, How Cells Obtain Energy from Food, Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th ed.). nucleotides, monosaccharides, etc.),

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Alta Sciences

AUGUST 21, 2024

.” — Michel Mubalama , Technical Support Intern “I am interested in researching epigenetics and DNA regulatory regions, hopefully in conjunction with novel genetic technologies being developed to treat genetic disorders caused by mutations in those regions.

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Codon

APRIL 2, 2024

in physics at Princeton University, he had a remarkable idea: What if it were possible to build a circuit out of DNA, rather than electronics, and use it to “program” a living cell? So many kinds of people have contributed to biology in different ways. In 1997, as Michael Elowitz was studying for a Ph.D.

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Codon

JUNE 18, 2024

Even after a half-century of molecular biology research, scientists didn’t know until recently how gas vesicles physically trap gas while occluding water. By combining DNA from multiple organisms and inserting it into E. angstroms, or roughly twice the length of a single carbon-carbon bond. megaterium.

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Drug Target Review

MAY 22, 2024

What are the key findings of Circio’s in vivo proof-of-concept for its circVec circular RNA platform technology compared to conventional mRNA-based expression with DNA vectors? DNA vectors in mouse models? Circular RNA (circRNA) has two major advantages versus mRNA in a vector-expression context.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 18, 2020

NASDAQ:CDXC) today highlighted a new study published in The European Molecular Biology Organization Journal looking at the effect of nicotinamide riboside (NR) on maintaining telomeres, the protective regions at the end of DNA strands. LOS ANGELES–( BUSINESS WIRE )– ChromaDex Corp.

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Codon

JULY 10, 2024

But in the 1950s, at the dawn of molecular biology, scientists gained a new appreciation for it after searching for organisms that were easy to work with and quick to grow. In 1952, when the famous Hershey-Chase experiment indicated that DNA—and not protein—was the source of genetic material, just 285 papers mentioned E.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Enter epigenetics Broadly speaking, epigenetics refers to the system of proteins and marks that sits atop our genome a system that modifies gene expression, guides cell differentiation, and functionally organises our DNA. Progress in molecular biology and translational science [Internet]. 2024 Jan 1 [cited 2024 Oct 22];185209.

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Drug Target Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Sabin and her team also co-developed a targeted gene insertion platform, in partnership with Intellia Therapeutics, to pair viruses with CRISPR gene editing systems to insert DNA into a particular site in the genome. Sabin earned her PhD in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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