Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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

APRIL 23, 2023

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. From Stahl E.C.

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Codon

APRIL 23, 2023

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. From Stahl E.C.

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Codon

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It would also be undetectable by key parts of the human immune system. Some scientists even think it had a virus defense system; “researchers say LUCA likely housed 19 CRISPR genes, which bacteria use to slice up viral threats,” reports Quanta Magazine. Not all pathogens spread quickly.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. These microbes were engineered to express tumor antigens that could “elicit T cells that were licensed by the commensal immune program but specific for a tumor,” including both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, according to the study. ” Joshua Sokol for Quanta Magazine.

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PLOS: DNA Science

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Influenza incidence and severity are increasing , against a backdrop of novel drifts (small genetic changes) and shifts (larger changes) to the virus, all against a backdrop of novel infection pathways, such as birds to cows to people. The mRNA in COVID vaccines tells cells to produce the virus’s spike protein.

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Codon

MARCH 26, 2023

Link A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth. Link *Immunization against Zika by entrapping live virus in a subcutaneous self-adjuvanting hydrogel. Link A protective measles virus-derived vaccine inducing long-lasting immune responses against influenza A virus H7N9.

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