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The democratisation of cell and gene therapy

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DNA purification “Plasmid DNA is an incredibly important part of molecular biology”, says Hummersone. He says: “What we are seeing from a molecular biology perspective is that the genetic material that we want to pack into viral vectors is becoming increasingly complicated.

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Tech Theatre ELRIG 2022: First steps towards liquid handling automation

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in Chemical Biology. She completed her academic training with a post-doctoral career development fellowship in Protein Engineering at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Hammerstein graduated from the University of Oxford with a M.Chem. in Chemistry and D.Phil.

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From the Top: Adele Hannigan, Antibody Analytics

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I was fortunate to join the four-year Wellcome Trust PhD programme, which allowed me to dabble in three areas of biology (genetics/ molecular biology, virology and parasitology) before embarking on my PhD, which combined elements of all of these placements.

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Advancements in upstream CLD for enhanced biotherapeutics production

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He has a post-doctorate in virology, viral pathogenesis, viral vector development, and vaccines evaluation from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Virology/Molecular Biology. The post Advancements in upstream CLD for enhanced biotherapeutics production appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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My Attendance at the 2024 Boston Society Cell and Gene Therapy Conference

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Our experts have over five years of experience with CRISPR gene-editing therapeutics in nonhuman primates (NHPs) and extensive expertise in bioanalysis for biodistribution studies, in addition to many molecular biology platforms , such as ligand binding assays (LBA), NAbs, TAbs, flow cytometry , and ELISpot.

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The inner workings of environmental bacterium

Drug Target Review

A team led by Professor Dr Ralf Rabus, a microbiologist at the University of Oldenburg, in collaboration with his doctoral student Patrick Becker, has achieved profound insights into the inner workings of a prevalent environmental bacterium.

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Meet the researcher: Dr Stephen Jones

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Biography: Credit: Jurgita Satkūnaitė Originally from the US, Stephen Jones earned his doctorate in Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. It improved my written communication so much, and it’s a resource I continually find myself referring back to.

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