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AI provides new insight into preventing human disease

Drug Discovery World

The study was conducted by researchers at the Universities of Bristol (UK) and Queensland (Australia), and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and HPV need the Commander complex to infect cells.

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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISAs) are an essential technique in today’s laboratory with many applications in the life sciences. 1,2 Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen at the research laboratories of NV Organon, Oss, the Netherlands developed a similar technique which was also published in 1971.

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Repurposing FDA-approved drugs may help combat COVID-19

The Pharma Data

. “The SARS-CoV-2 vaccines target the spike protein, but this protein is under strong selection pressure and, as we have seen with Omicron, can undergo significant mutations,” said Joyce Jose, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, Penn State. 25) in the journal Communications Biology. .

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

The project is a collaboration between the Broad and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemer’s University outside Lagos in Nigeria, where Happi is a professor of molecular biology and genomics. Rural clinics use rapid, low-cost tests to detect a few common pathogens.

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Phages could help to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Drug Target Review

Phage have been of interest to scientists as tools to understand fundamental molecular biology, as vectors of horizontal gene transfer and drivers of bacterial evolution, as sources of diagnostic and genetic tools, and as novel therapeutic agents. He continued: “CBASS cyclases look a lot like cGAS, so they have to be sensing something.

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Q&A With Dr. Norbert Makori and Pierre Jolicoeur: The Benefits of Combining Preclinical and Bioanalytical for Your Gene Therapy Studies

Alta Sciences

PJ: At Altasciences, we have a range of leading-edge platforms that include ligand binding assays (LBA), NAb, TAb, flow cytometry, and ELISpot, as well as on-site molecular biology instrumentation such as Bio-Rad’s ddPCR system, the NanoDropTM One spectrophotometer, and dedicated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chambers.

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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.