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The Dangers of Mirrored Life

Codon

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. DNA and RNA molecules are also built from exclusively right-handed nucleic acids.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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Beyond Steel Tanks

Codon

Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on. If the technology proved successful in human beings, it would take Moderna weeks, not years, to make a new product,” wrote Catherine Elton in Boston Magazine.

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Approves Expanded Indication of Gilead’s Biktarvy® for Treatment of HIV-1 in Pediatric Populations

The Pharma Data

With this expanded blessing, clinicians can add Biktarvy to their magazine of options to help insure these children maintain virologic repression with a treatment option that makes sense for them.” HIV-1 RNA wasn’t collected at Week 24 for two actors because of COVID-19 epidemic-affiliated study dislocation.

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Codon: Notes on Progress #2

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The central dogma is often depicted as DNA→RNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. Asterisk Magazine 13 of 31. Eterna is an online game (there’s also an app) where anyone on the internet can solve puzzles by manipulating RNA sequences and simulating the results.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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A T4 phage can hold 171,000 bases of DNA or other molecules, including proteins and RNA. It uses single-molecule RNA fluorescence to measure mRNAs and fluorescent reporters to measure the proteins. This essay , in Asterisk Magazine , is the best I’ve seen at explaining why cultivated meat is so expensive in the first place.

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