SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 24, 2024

Viral genetic material was integrated into the genome of the first multi-cellular beings and is still in our DNA today. Researchers from the CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre) describe now in the journal Science […]

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Broad Institute

JUNE 10, 2024

The advance, from the lab of Broad core institute member David Liu , could one day help researchers develop a single gene therapy for diseases such as cystic fibrosis that are caused by one of hundreds or thousands of different mutations in a gene.

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Codon

AUGUST 26, 2024

When COVID-19 emerged in 2019, by contrast, mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna took just 326 days from the initial sequencing of the virus to gaining approval for emergency use. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)—a nonprofit organization that funds vaccine research and development—thinks so.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

After that, I spent over a decade at a large instrument and genomics company working in, and then leading, research and development. Many people weren’t interested in the field and those that were familiar with it couldn’t see a path to building a billion-dollar business from DNA. Some of our best investors started as ‘no’s.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

Researchers from Columbia University and the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have elucidated a method to produce large quantities of the receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein uses to bind to the surface of human cells.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JANUARY 25, 2024

We can learn about life, past and present, anywhere we find DNA and determine its sequence. DNA Science has described intriguing sources of environmental DNA, aka eDNA: DNA in Strange Places: Hippo Poop, Zoo Air, and Cave Dirt and A Glimpse of the Ocean’s Twilight Zone Through Environmental DNA.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JULY 27, 2023

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. emerged in late 2021.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

New researched published in the journal Immunity , T cells exhibit an unusual, yet vital behaviour in their battle against pathogens and cancer cells, involving a nuclear receptor. The cell’s nucleus, containing compacted DNA, is centrally positioned within the cell. Could these two isoforms serve disparate functions in T cells?

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Reading DNA The first step in detecting a novel pathogen is recognizing it as an anomaly amidst a noisy background of other material. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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Broad Institute

JUNE 27, 2024

There are currently no treatments, but researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed an approach that could one day be used to turn off the gene encoding this protein throughout the brain to treat or even prevent prion disease.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. 1 Yet even after more than two decades of research, media hype, and dozens of clinical trials and biotech start-ups that have come and gone, phage therapy has not scaled. Read it on our website here.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By Leah Eisenstadt December 13, 2023 Two teams of Broad researchers produced detailed maps of the mouse nervous system. Related news Researchers map brain cell changes in Alzheimer’s disease Courtesy of the Chen and Macosko labs. Courtesy of the Chen and Macosko labs. Our results underscore the need to study them more deeply.”

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Borrowed from Bacteria Researchers are using the gene editing tool CRISPR to improve upon naturally-evolved human microbiomes, to build a better probiotic. A recent paper in BioDesign Research , CRISPR-Cas-Based Engineering of Probiotics , from investigators at several Chinese research institutions, contributed to the report.

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PLOS: DNA Science

APRIL 20, 2023

DNA is a sleek double helix, with “rungs” consisting of a purine base paired with a smaller pyrimidine base: adenine (A) with thymine (T) and guanine (G) with cytosine (C). . ” DNA encodes amino acid sequences comprising proteins, which impart traits. Watson and F.

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

MARCH 8, 2016

A little more than a decade ago, researchers began adapting a familiar commercial concept to genomics: the barcode. Instead of the black, printed stripes of the Universal Product Codes (UPCs) that we see on everything from package deliveries to clothing tags, they used short, unique snippets of DNA to label cells.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Genome engineering and gene therapies that manipulate DNA sequences in cells have driven a biotechnological revolution over the past decade. 1 Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are the leading platform for in vivo gene delivery for the treatment of various human diseases.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 5, 2023

Please summarise Eterna Therapeutics’ ($ERNA) new research at ASGCT on a cell therapy approach that integrates multiple cell types to emulate the natural immune system’s fight against diseases? Those kinds of mutations are often associated with double-strand breaks in DNA.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Among the report’s authors are 16 members of national academies, two Nobel Laureates, and several researchers who have previously been frontrunners in the quest to create mirrored life. ” 1 Now, it seems, these researchers have changed their minds. It would also be undetectable by key parts of the human immune system.

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Codon

MARCH 20, 2023

Nucleic Acids Research. Digital nanoreactors to control absolute stoichiometry and spatiotemporal behavior of DNA receptors within lipid bilayers. CRISPR-induced DNA reorganization for multiplexed nucleic acid detection. Nucleic Acids Research. Nucleic Acids Research. Nucleic Acids Research. Krypotou E.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During the process of transformation from a normal cell into a cancer cell, a cell acquires a series of changes, or mutations, in its DNA. But DNA mutations can also result in changes to the proteins that are displayed on the surface of the cancer cell. Our immune system helps us to fight off infections and cancer.

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PLOS: DNA Science

AUGUST 22, 2024

When Crichton died of cancer in 2008, he left behind a staggering trove of research about an eruption of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii. ” The explanation continues, and here’s where it ceases to make sense, to anyone who knows anything about DNA, genes, and genomes. The DNA double helix is exquisitely symmetrical.

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Codon

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

mRNA was the intermediate stage between DNA and protein, a dynamic entity that shifted depending on the second-to-second needs of the cell, able to point out if a cell was cancerous or stressed, what kind of cell it was, and so on. The lab created a plan with eight research institutions across three continents.

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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. Due to the nearly ubiquitous use of cloning in life science research, this lost time adds up. However, E.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Infectious agents’ resistance was described at the European Union Research Parliament “as a widespread, multifaceted phenomenon that affects both living things and the environment, as well as their capacity to survive in the presence of drugs intended to either kill or inactivate them.”

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Broad Institute

MARCH 22, 2024

Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and MIT have engineered a new mRNA structure by adding multiple “tails” to the molecules that boosted mRNA activity levels in cells by 5 to 20 times. “The This research has given us a lot of confidence in our ability to modify mRNA molecules chemically and topologically.” “I’m

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Codon

JUNE 11, 2024

And unlike traditional DNA sequencers, which parse genetic material by breaking it up into fragments and interpreting it chunk-by-chunk, a nanopore device unspools a long strand of DNA and reads it all at once. A scientist can isolate DNA and load up a flow cell in fifteen minutes. Nanopore devices work incredibly fast.

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Drug Target Review

JANUARY 15, 2024

Each T cell expresses a TCR specific for an HLA‑presented peptide signal, and when that signal is detected a T cell expressing the relevant TCR can launch a complex array of immune effector responses that can suppress or destroy tumours or virus-infected cells.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany performed detailed imaging analysis to determine how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, reprograms infected cells. The virus causes changes in the membrane so it can produce its own replication organelles, amplifying the viral genome. How COVID-19 Hijacks the Host Cell.

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PLOS: DNA Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As genetics morphed into genomics, artificial intelligence stepped in, layering the combinatorial information of comparative genomics onto DNA sequences. Genetics Textbooks and Generative Artificial Intelligence Genetic research unfurls and extracts reams of information, millions and even billions of data points. Then, a year off.

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Advarra

MARCH 31, 2023

This trend came to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the three most popular vaccines developed in response to the coronavirus contained engineered genetic materials in the form of mRNA or a genetically engineered virus. Either way, occupational exposure to these gene delivery systems bears potential risks to the research staff.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 17, 2024

What are the potential implications of the research findings for cancer risk assessment, prevention strategies, and treatment approaches? He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Timothy Chan Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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DrugBank

MARCH 12, 2025

This approach can be personalized for each patient by sequencing the tumor's DNA and RNA to identify unique mutations. By combining mRNA therapeutics with other modalities, researchers can achieve synergistic effects that improve treatment outcomes for patients with advanced or resistant cancers.

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PLOS: DNA Science

JUNE 13, 2024

The virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, home of a premiere research institute that focuses on viruses. A year before the initial outbreak, Wuhan researchers proposed nurturing a coronavirus with enhanced ability to attach onto, and enter, human cells. An altered virus could have escaped. Her points: 1. Coincidence?

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT has discovered and characterized one of these unexplored microbial defense systems. In the new study, the researchers wanted to know if the proteins work the same way in prokaryotes to defend against infection.

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Broad Institute

MAY 14, 2024

His T7 expression technology can be used to make large quantities of nearly any RNA or protein and has been for decades, and continues to be, a mainstay of biomedical research and pharmaceutical production. The motivation for my research is not commercial application. My interest is in basic research."

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 12, 2023

million DNA bases. The DMD gene therapy delivers a shortened version of the dystrophin gene, just 4,558 DNA bases. First, adeno-associated virus (AAV) delivers the genes, rather than the adenovirus (AV) that had entered cells in Jesse’s liver that weren’t the targets. Two other design strategies add precision.

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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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