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Scaling Phage Therapy

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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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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

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Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. Ars Technica.

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Codon Digest: Ghana Approves A Better Malaria Vaccine

Codon

Most people would take the two CRISPR gene-editing components (a Cas9 protein and guide RNA), package them up inside of a virus, and then inject the viruses into the skulls of mice. Unfortunately, they can also trigger immune responses, and they are not super efficient at gene-editing some parts of the brain. Ars Technica.

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