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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

He has also emerged in recent years as a skilled and relatable science communicator, renowned for his efforts at Broad and beyond during the COVID-19 pandemic to unpack the fast-moving research on the new virus in an accessible way and give practical advice about masking, vaccines, and other public health measures.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048 The Virus that Cures It’s been over 25 years since the science magazine Discover first ran an extraordinary article about how a long-forgotten medical treatment, used in the former Soviet country of Georgia, could save us from the growing threat of untreatable, drug-resistant infections.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

During my doctoral training, I split my work between wet lab research and programming, two streams that differed radically in terms of productivity. The researchers chose to discard genes that encode virus-sensing machinery because the cells would be grown in a sterile laboratory environment. The resulting strain of V.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16. All the colors had the same brightness.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” The tool was crafted with a virus, called GIL16. All the colors had the same brightness.