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Can Singapore become a global hub for biotech?

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Sanofi is also building a facility there, one of two fully digitised vaccine manufacturing EVolutive Facilities (EVF), capable of producing up to four vaccines at the same time, along with Hilleman Laboratories, which has recently opened a US$20 million vaccine manufacturing plant.

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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. MenAfriVac is a meningococcal vaccine that remains active, without refrigeration, for up to four days and has significantly boosted vaccine coverage in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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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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Codon: Notes on Progress #2

Codon

The central dogma is often depicted as DNA→RNA→protein, but it’s much more: A biophysical marvel inside the smallest of vessels. The landmark paper enabled revolutions in insulin biomanufacturing, CAR-T therapies, and the bioproduction of most modern vaccines; in other words, much of what we take for granted today.

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Codon Digest: Moore's Law

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Link Experimental Tests of the Virtual Circular Genome Model for Nonenzymatic RNA Replication. Link U1 snRNP increases RNA Pol II elongation rate to enable synthesis of long genes. Link Gene Editing, CRISPR & Genetic Control *Targeted DNA integration in human cells without double-strand breaks using CRISPR RNA-guided transposases.

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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. Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana. This is not the first vaccine approved to prevent malaria, but it is by far the most effective.

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