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Researchers engineer in vivo delivery system for prime editing, partially restoring vision in mice

Broad Institute

A team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has engineered virus-like particles to deliver prime editors to cells in mice at a high enough efficiency to rescue a genetic disorder. However, delivering the complex gene editing machinery to cells in living animals has been challenging.

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Patient centricity in drug innovation and packaging design to take centre stage at Connect in Pharma in Geneva this September

Drug Discovery Today

Talk from Roche engineer Tiffany McIntire will highlightopportunities for the pharma sector to reinvent packaging to bemore focused on patient needs in areas such as medication takenorally

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Gene editing extends lifespan in mouse model of prion disease

Broad Institute

Building on previous work by the vector-engineering lab of Ben Deverman at the Broad, the team developed a pair of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) to package and deliver the base-editing machinery to brain cells. But the researchers needed to deliver the base editors to the brain.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A software engineer develops computational tools for psychiatric and brain research

Broad Institute

By Claire Hendershot February 21, 2024 Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Khalid Shakir is a principal software engineer in the McCarroll Lab. Now, Shakir has traded in his Commodore 64 for large-scale computational tools that he develops as a software engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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MSU School of Packaging researchers make a sustainable plastic more compostable

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Highlights: Researchers led by Rafael Auras in the Michigan State University School of Packaging have shown how to make a bio-based polymer compostable in both home and industrial settings.

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Feature Engineering with Databricks and Unity Catalog

Perficient: Drug Development

Feature Engineering is the preprocessing step used to make raw data usable as input to an ML model through transformation, aggregation, enrichment, joining, normalization and other processes. Sometimes feature engineering is used against the output of another model rather than the raw data (transfer learning). Lineage is robust.

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Stronger tape engineered through the art of cutting

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Adhesive tape fulfills many purposes, from quickly fixing household appliances to ensuring a reliable seal on a mailed package. When using tape with a strong bond, removing it may only be possible by scraping and prying at the tape’s corners, hoping desperately that surface pieces don’t tear away with the tape.