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‘Programmable droplets’ could enable high-volume biology experiments – Science Daily

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‘Programmable droplets’ could enable high-volume biology experiments
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The new approach, which moves solutions around in computationally prescribed patterns, could enable experiments to be conducted more efficiently, cost-effectively, and at larger scales. “Traditional microfluidic systems use tubes, valves, and pumps

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Why IBM, GNC Holdings, and Intrexon Slumped Today
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The synthetic biology specialist announced that it had closed its secondary offering of stock to investors, selling 6.9 million shares of common stock at $12.50 per share. That price was more than 12% below the stock’s price as of Thursday evening
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Young Boy Becomes First DMD Patient to Receive Investigational Systemic Microdystrophin Gene Therapy
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The first Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patient has received systemic microdystrophin gene therapy as part of a Phase 1/2 clinical trial at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The trial (NCT03375164), currently recruiting participants

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2018-01-19 NEWS

Protein designed entirely from scratch functions in cells as a genuine enzyme
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Researchers are on the cusp of a true synthetic biology, Hecht said. “E. coli has 4,000 different genes,” he said. “We didn’t test all 4,000, because the only way this experiment works is if nothing grows on minimal medium, and of the 4,000, that’s