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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

Partnering with researchers on the ground to reach communities where they are is absolutely critical to making that a reality.” “We Sentinel is more than just a short-lived research program in West Africa,” he said. We learned a lot from Ebola,” Happi said. “We This is how we should be conducting surveillance.

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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

They are often the method of choice to detect or measure specific biological molecules (analytes) for diagnostics, drug discovery or fundamental research. Early beginnings ELISAs were first developed in the mid-1970s independently by two research groups. Many proven applications The use of ELISAs has flourished in the life sciences.

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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

More bottles on the medicine shelf would help, but Bhattacharyya, who’s now also a research scientist, realized that science might lead to better tools for diagnosing and treating such challenging cases. TWO WHITE COATS Roby Bhattacharyya's mother, Maryka, visiting his graduate research lab at UCSF.

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

His T7 expression technology can be used to make large quantities of nearly any RNA or protein and has been for decades, and continues to be, a mainstay of biomedical research and pharmaceutical production. There’s not a single molecular biology or biochemistry lab I know that doesn’t use T7.”

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Johns Hopkins Researchers Identify CRISPR Dimmer

The Pharma Data

In the paper, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere found a natural long-form transactivating CRISPR RNA (tracr-L) in Streptococcus pyogenes that functions to downregulate its endogenous CRISPR-Cas9 system.

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Repurposing FDA-approved drugs may help combat COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Several FDA-approved drugs – including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV – significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in human cells, according to new research led by scientists at Penn State. 25) in the journal Communications Biology. .

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. 1 Yet even after more than two decades of research, media hype, and dozens of clinical trials and biotech start-ups that have come and gone, phage therapy has not scaled. Read it on our website here.

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