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Key early steps in gene expression captured in real time by CSU researchers

Scienmag

Cellular proteins get their marching orders from genetic instructions encoded in DNA, whose sequences are first copied and made […].

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

Drug Discovery World

Rapid and accurate DNA synthesis . Conventional DNA synthesis, typically used for making sequences such as primers, employs phosphoramidite chemistry, a method that was developed in the 1980s and is still considered the gold standard for DNA synthesis. .

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Democratising proteomics for cancer and beyond

Drug Discovery World

Whilst the cause of DIPG isn’t known, the disease is characterised by specific mutations in genes coding for histone proteins – a family of basic proteins which can associate with DNA due to their positive charges. BMC Bioinformatics. These mutated proteins then reprogramme the epigenome, from which the cancer develops.

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