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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: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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This means that IscB base editors might be easier to package inside of AAVs, which can only store 4,700 bases of DNA for gene therapies. Read *An engineered influenza virus to deliver antigens for lung cancer vaccination. Read Synthetic virology approaches to improve the safety and efficacy of oncolytic virus therapies.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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This means that IscB base editors might be easier to package inside of AAVs, which can only store 4,700 bases of DNA for gene therapies. Read *An engineered influenza virus to deliver antigens for lung cancer vaccination. Read Synthetic virology approaches to improve the safety and efficacy of oncolytic virus therapies.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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A phage is a virus that infects bacteria. 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. ” Bacteriophages infect a bacterium.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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A phage is a virus that infects bacteria. 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. ” Bacteriophages infect a bacterium.

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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. ” Quanta Magazine. If you want to edit a gene inside of a neuron, what do you do? These fat bubbles are injected straight through the skull.

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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. ” Quanta Magazine. If you want to edit a gene inside of a neuron, what do you do? These fat bubbles are injected straight through the skull.

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