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A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life

LifeSciVC

The central dogma of molecular biology is that information generally (with few exceptions) flows from DNA to RNA to Protein. Build your social immunity. The adaptive immune response identifies and responds to highly specific antigens associated with infections and cancer. Remember life’s Central Dogma.

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Scientists find a region of the mouse gut tightly regulated by the immune system

Broad Institute

Now, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital have analyzed the entire mouse intestine, mapping gene expression and cell states and location in the healthy gut and in response to perturbations such as inflammation.

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A surprising new role for a major immune regulator

Broad Institute

Now, a team of MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers has discovered how STING activates those two pathways. Paper Cited Liu B, Carlson R, et al. Human STING is a proton channel. Online August 3, 2023.

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Roche launches new quantitative antibody test to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, to support the evaluation of vaccines

The Pharma Data

The Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test can be used to quantitatively measure antibodies in people who have been exposed to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and can play an important part in characterising a vaccine-induced immune response. The molecular biology of coronaviruses.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Regulators traditionally want to see a single, stable, well-characterized drug before giving the green light for it to be tested in a clinical trial, not dozens of different viruses; let alone ones that are best found in unappealing places like sewage , hospital waste, or bird poop. 4 But the same barriers still exist today.

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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.” In response, the U.S. a lower risk of immune responses. From McKyton et al.

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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.” In response, the U.S. a lower risk of immune responses. From McKyton et al.