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How misplaced DNA could influence disease risk

Medical Xpress

DNA is our body's instruction manual. It contains all the information that our cells need to make proteins and other molecules vital for our development, growth and survival.

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Evaluating methods targeting Protein-Protein Interactions

pharmaphorum

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are becoming increasingly relevant in the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. PPIs are an integral part of the physiology of living organisms, as complexes which control biological pathways mediated by proteins. These regions are critical for optimal interactions between proteins.

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Researchers teach AI to tailor artificial DNA for drug development

Drug Discovery World

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells’ protein production. . First it was about being able to fully ‘read’ the DNA molecule’s instructions.

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COVID prompts another milestone, as India clears first DNA vaccine

pharmaphorum

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

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The structure of DNA is found to be actively involved in genome regulation

Scienmag

The two meters of -stretched- DNA contained in human cells are continuously twisting and untwisting to give access to genetic information: when a gene is expressed to generate a protein, the two strands of DNA are separated to give access to all the machinery necessary for this expression, resulting in an excessive accumulation of coiling […]. (..)

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DNA-peptide interactions create complex behaviours which may have helped shape biology

Scienmag

Researchers find that simple DNA-peptide interactions create a surprising diversity of compartmentalised higher-ordered phase behaviours, suggesting that these polymers’ primordial interactions helped create modern complex biological structures. For example, each human cell contains about 2 meters worth of DNA, but this is […].

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Traditional Meat Industry’s Beef With Alternative Protein Continues with the FAIR on Labels Act

FDA Law Blog

Gaulkin & Riëtte van Laack — As readers of this blog know, there is a lot of contention about the naming of alternative protein products (APPs), including both plant-based and cell-cultured alternatives for (traditional) animal products. By Sophia R.

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