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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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For context, the AAV9 that is often used in gene therapies has a packaging limit of 4,700 DNA bases.) Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. “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.) Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. “Anyone with a few years of molecular biology training could do this if so inclined.”

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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

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In 1926, one of Cohn’s academic colleagues at Harvard Medical School discovered that patients suffering from pernicious anemia, a form of vitamin B12 deficiency, could be cured by eating liver. Cohn was the only non-medical researcher invited, and he made a big impression. At the time, the U.S.