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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

Lu Rahman selects some recent synthetic biology innovations and the potential they hold to benefit drug discovery. . The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape.

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impacts of Studier’s development, in the 1980s, of an efficient and scalable technology to produce mass amounts of RNA and proteins in laboratories that is widely used today all over the world.

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 2

Drug Discovery World

The luncheon presentation will be given by Hans Gerstmans, Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Biomolecular Discovery & Engineering, KU Leuven, VIB, alongside Wai Long Tam, Head of Technology Watch at VIB, Technology Watch, VIB.

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The inner workings of antibiotics

Drug Discovery World

Others, like tetracycline and aminoglycosides, inhibit the function of ribosomes, the cellular machinery responsible for protein production. Dr Clifton has developed novel bio-membrane sample systems which have been used to answer applied questions of membrane biology.

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BioSpace Global Roundup: Cevec Licenses AAV Program to Biogen

The Pharma Data

based Mogrify Limited expanded its research collaboration with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. The resulting target cell types could provide researchers with improved access to important proteins found in human cell types that are difficult to obtain and allow for more efficient protein production.