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Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease

Broad Institute

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60 percent. Theres still a long way to go to make this a therapy, Minikel said. Tags: Neurodegeneration Rare Disease Gene therapy Nature Medicine.

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Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics

Broad Institute

Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics By Corie Lok March 22, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Messenger RNAs with multiple “tails” could lead to more effective therapeutics Scientists have engineered long lasting mRNAs that increased therapeutic protein production in cells and animals.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

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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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

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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Codon Digest: Bacteria Resist Every Virus

Codon

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. Digital nanoreactors to control absolute stoichiometry and spatiotemporal behavior of DNA receptors within lipid bilayers. Peroxisomal metabolic coupling improves fatty alcohol production from sole methanol in yeast. Molecular Therapy. Gene Therapy. Szymczak P. Karlikow M.

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A Look Back

Dark Matter Blog

As soon as I learned about DNA and RNA, I wanted to be a molecular biologist. Last stops at RNA My last roles in biotech were where my original passion began: DNA and RNA. Here, like other scientists, I found that it is possible to fall in love with a protein. The only subject in school that held my interest was biology.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

Codon

Credit: Universität Würzburg Archives His key insight hinged upon the fact that living cells are essentially bags of liquid filled with enzymes, or proteins that speed up chemical reactions. Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on.