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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

” A Global View Even as advances in computing and molecular biology usher in the era of a new, high-tech “phage therapy 2.0”, He is editor of The Biologist , a magazine published by the Royal Society of Biology, and author of The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

For context, the AAV9 that is often used in gene therapies has a packaging limit of 4,700 DNA bases.) This essay , in Asterisk Magazine , is the best I’ve seen at explaining why cultivated meat is so expensive in the first place. “Anyone with a few years of molecular biology training could do this if so inclined.”

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

For context, the AAV9 that is often used in gene therapies has a packaging limit of 4,700 DNA bases.) This essay , in Asterisk Magazine , is the best I’ve seen at explaining why cultivated meat is so expensive in the first place. “Anyone with a few years of molecular biology training could do this if so inclined.”

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