Interview 13 Dec 2018
Making DNA Quantification More Precise Than Ever
…PCR the sample is split into tens of thousands of tiny droplets, each with a few molecules of DNA in it. The molecules that match the DNA sequence the researcher…
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News and Trends 12 Sep 2017
French Startup Raises €11M in Series A to Reinvent DNA Synthesis
DNA Script has gathered the support of key international investors to take a new, faster DNA synthesis technology closer to the market. In a Series A round led by Illumina…
News and Trends 21 Dec 2022
Artificial DNA can kill cancer
…human cervical cancer- and breast cancer-derived cells, and against malignant melanoma cells from mice. The team created a pair of chemically synthesized, hairpin-shaped, cancer-killing DNA. When the DNA pairs were…
News and Trends 25 Apr 2018
Cancer Treatment Targeting DNA Repair is Tested in Humans for the First Time
…cancer treatment last year. AsiDNA, is a short, double-stranded DNA molecule that mimics double-stranded DNA breaks found in damaged DNA. This attracts a host of enzymes that are involved in…
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In Depth 26 Jul 2022
How DNA sequencing can safeguard against biodiversity loss
…many companies and initiatives working to safeguard nature. Sequencing environmental DNA As an animal goes about its daily life, it leaves behind environmental DNA (eDNA) in the form of shed…
News and Trends 24 Nov 2022
AI works on artificial DNA for future drug development
…being able to fully ‘read’ the DNA molecule’s instructions. Now we have succeeded in designing our own DNA that contains the exact instructions to control the quantity of a specific…
Podcast 19 Jan 2024
Epigenetic editing – the power of CRISPR without cutting DNA
…cleaves the non-target DNA strand) in Cas9 via point mutations resulted in a nuclease-dead dCas9 that could bind to DNA. Using dCas9 to repress gene expression is called CRISPR interference…
News and Trends 16 Nov 2022
Enzymes could be key to understanding ‘origin of DNA errors’
…‘helicase’, which binds to one of the DNA strands and pulls it through itself, thereby forcing apart the DNA. Potential mutant DNA bases must survive this process to stand a…
Startup Scout 17 May 2019
This Biotech Detects Fraudulent Food by Checking its DNA
…and trust in providers. DNA testing isn’t infallible on the other hand. One of the biggest challenges is getting good-quality DNA from some types of food. “DNA obviously is not…
News and Trends 14 Mar 2017
The First 3D Structure of Active DNA could advance Stem Cell Therapies
…the 3D DNA structure. Regulatory regions within our DNA play a major role in regulating gene expression, but a requirement is that the regions come into spatial contact with the…
News and Trends 17 Aug 2022
Researchers invited to apply for DNA synthesized by Evonetix’s platform
An early access program for semiconductor synthesized DNA has been opened by UK-based gene synthetic biology company, Evonetix. Evonetix’s DNA synthesis capability brings together semiconductor chip design and proprietary, thermally…
News and Trends 5 Apr 2016
How can we Optimise DNA Extraction from Human Blood for more Sensitive NGS Analysis?
…pair number strands of DNA and RNA for more powerful (and accurate) NGS analysis. Given the sensitivity of NGS, strands of DNA with a greater number of base pairs can…
