Codon

JUNE 25, 2024

During my doctoral training, I split my work between wet lab research and programming, two streams that differed radically in terms of productivity. Proteins are colored blue and RNA molecules are colored orange and yellow. RNA and proteins comprise each ribosome, but the cell synthesizes these two biomolecules at different rates.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Lab tests that look for the coronavirus’s genetic material using a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are still considered the gold standard for detecting the virus. That fragment sets off alarms in the immune system and stimulates it to attack if the real virus shows up. “I am hopeful that it works well.”

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule? RNA export systems. All the colors had the same brightness. No longer.

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Codon

JULY 27, 2023

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules. How do transcription factors couple up with the correct RNA molecule? RNA export systems. All the colors had the same brightness. No longer.

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PLOS: DNA Science

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In those early days, politicians and government officials who’d never heard terms like “cytokine storm” and “RNA virus” were suddenly charged with explaining what was happening. But much of it was in the unfamiliar language of virology and immunology, public health and epidemiology.

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PLOS: DNA Science

MAY 4, 2023

Extracting information from her dental remains was possible because of the universality of the genetic code – in all organisms (and viruses), the same RNA triplets encode the same amino acids. .” The Red Lady was from a group of hunter-gatherers trapped in a cave. Here’s info from his notebooks.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. Tags: Cell Circuits Program Immunology RNA sequencing The reference, called the Immune Dictionary , appears today in Nature. Did any results surprise you?

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NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

JANUARY 5, 2016

This gene-editing system consists of a short segment of RNA that is attached to an enzyme. The RNA is preprogrammed to find a distinct short sequence of DNA and deliver the enzyme, which acts like a scalpel to slice the sequence out of the genome. 3] A Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Ebola Vaccine — Preliminary Report.

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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Doctors currently don’t have effective targeted treatments, so they often have to stop the anti-tumor therapy or give large amounts of steroids, which have their own undesired side effects such as lowering the efficacy of the ICI anti-tumor treatment. Tags: Cancer RNA sequencing Paper Cited Blum S, Zlotoff D, et al.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Eli Lilly has said it expects to have enough to treat 1 million people by the end of the year, not nearly enough to curb a virus that is now infecting an average of over 111,000 Americans a day, the Times reported. With more people being exposed to the virus now, testing the vaccine becomes a speedier affair.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With more people being exposed to the virus now, testing the vaccine becomes a speedier affair. The vaccine uses a technology never before used: Each injection contains lipid nanoparticles — fat bubbles — that surround a strip of genetic material called messenger RNA, the Post reported.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 23, 2020

One person familiar with the list said it included the lipids that encase the RNA material in both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, the Times reported. Instead, it may have been identified there first because the British government has a strong monitoring system that has tracked tens of thousands of genomic sequences of virus samples.

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