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Machine learning guides researchers to new synthetic genetic switches

Broad Institute

That is in part because of the ongoing challenge of understanding the DNA switches, called cis-regulatory elements (CREs), that control the expression and repression of genes. CREs themselves are not part of genes, but are separate, regulatory DNA sequences – often located near the genes they control. In a paper published in Oct.

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Unlocking Undruggable Targets: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Drug Discovery

DrugBank

But as molecular biology has advanced, so too has our approach to finding new drugs. Another promising avenue is the use of technologies like RNA interference and gene editing, which allow scientists to turn off the production of certain proteins altogether. This method was more about serendipity than science.

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Phages could help to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Drug Target Review

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. But what, exactly?”

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A Look Back

Dark Matter Blog

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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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Having a combination of computational skills & scientific knowledge such as molecular biology, genomics is also important.

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A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life

LifeSciVC

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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Q&A With Dr. Norbert Makori and Pierre Jolicoeur: The Benefits of Combining Preclinical and Bioanalytical for Your Gene Therapy Studies

Alta Sciences

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.