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Synthetic Origins

Codon

I was reading a lot of molecular biology papers about different systems, especially circadian clocks, and also a book called Biological Feedback , by Thomas and D’Ari, that sketched out really simple models for different kinds of feedback circuits. So many kinds of people have contributed to biology in different ways.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. No longer. ” And a third paper (BOOM!)

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

.” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” ” This was a series of tweets in which I told brief stories behind seminal papers, mostly in molecular biology and biophysics. You can read all of them here. No longer. ” And a third paper (BOOM!)

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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”, 2 As you might imagine, getting packages marked ‘viruses’ through customs is a problem in many countries, requiring special permissions or fees.

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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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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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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You Revised ICH viral safety guideline: NGS is in, animal use (mostly) out

Agency IQ

a recombinant protein or gene therapy packaged via AAV virus) which has been produced by the cells, in addition to other debris such as the remaining media and the remnants of the cells. After the cells and the media are incubated in the bioreactor, the unprocessed “bulk” is harvested. This bulk product contains both the final product (e.g.,

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