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Ginkgo Bioworks awarded DARPA contract for therapeutic proteins 

Drug Discovery World

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that Ginkgo Bioworks, which is building a platform for cell programming and biosecurity, has been awarded a four-year contract worth up to $18 million to reimagine how to manufacture complex therapeutic proteins.

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Medicago, GSK’s plant-made COVID jab clears phase 2

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Canadian biotech Medicago has the data it was hoping for from a phase 2 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine, partnered with GlaxoSmithKline, and is now hoping to have phase 3 data available “by early summer.” The purified vaccine is administered alongside GSK’s pandemic adjuvant to boost the immune response.

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Rising Demand for DNA and Gene Cloning  Service Providers

Roots Analysis

Once isolated, molecular clones can be used to generate multiple copies of DNA for the analysis of gene sequences and / or to express proteins obtained for the study or utilization of protein function. These clones can be manipulated and mutated in vitro to alter the expression and function of a protein.

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