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‘Toolbox’ creates custom phages for killing pathogens – Futurity: Research News

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2018-02-16 NEWS

Futurity: Research News

‘Toolbox’ creates custom phages for killing pathogens
Futurity: Research News
Samuel Kilcher, a specialist in molecular virology, used synthetic biology methods to plan the genome of a bacteriophage on the drawing board and assemble it in a test tube from DNA fragments. At the same time new, additional functions were

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PLOS iGEM Realtime Peer Review Jamboree – take part!
PLoS Blogs (blog)
On February 23rd PLOS and iGEM will be holding the second Realtime Peer Review Jamboree and we’d like YOU to take part in reviewing iGEM Project Reports and Research Papers. The all-day event will be hosted on the PLOS Syn Bio Breezio platform where

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Carlisle Sentinel

Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus? | Live Well …
Carlisle Sentinel
For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect.

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Phys.Org

Using CRISPR to create a cell ‘black box’ to record cell life events
Phys.Org
In this new effort, the researchers report on a technique they have developed called the CRISPR-mediated analog multi-event recording apparatus (CAMERA), which they have used to create two types of cell recording systems. In the first, called CAMERA 1