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Women in Stem August: Meet Theonie Anastassiadis

Drug Target Review

Progress has been made on raising awareness about the gender disparities and biases that exist within STEM fields through training programs and workshops to educate about unconscious biases and promoting diversity, but much work remains to be done. Before joining Flagship, Theonie received her Ph.D.

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

Broad Institute

The project is a collaboration between the Broad and the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at Redeemer’s University outside Lagos in Nigeria, where Happi is a professor of molecular biology and genomics.

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A Protein Printer

Codon

It is the untouchable foundation of molecular biology. The ribosome is a molecular printer that threads ‘beads’ onto a protein string. But we’ve workshopped the idea with ribosome engineers, and not a single person said, “This is impossible ” or “ This breaks a law of physics.”

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A Protein Printer

Codon

It is the untouchable foundation of molecular biology. The ribosome is a molecular printer that threads ‘beads’ onto a protein string. But we’ve workshopped the idea with ribosome engineers, and not a single person said, “This is impossible ” or “ This breaks a law of physics.”

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. A writing workshop was followed by pizza and rosé Thanks to everyone who showed up. “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

Future Nobel Laureate, Paul Berg, narrated the video, which quickly became a cult classic moment in molecular biology history. A writing workshop was followed by pizza and rosé Thanks to everyone who showed up. “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

Among these are considerations for highly pure and concentrated virus stocks for spiking and notes for when molecular biology assays are used to quantify viral genomes. For more background, read AgencyIQ’s analysis of a recent workshop where FDA sought input on the building blocks for platform technology designation.]

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