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Amino acids
Small molecules that can be linked together to make proteins, which are large, complex biological molecules.
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Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Pfizer infringed haemophilia B gene therapy patent
The High Court has held that a patent owned by uniQure for the treatment of haemophilia B is valid and was infringed by Pfizer...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Nobel Prizes awarded for microRNA discovery and AI breakthroughs
Nobel Prizes have been awarded to scientists for microRNA discovery, protein structure, and artificial neural network research...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Artificial intelligence identifies genetic causes of disease
A new artificial intelligence tool has predicted how likely some DNA changes are to cause disease in humans...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Algorithm predicts outcomes of genome editing
A new machine learning tool has been developed to help measure the efficiency of a specific type of genome editing, and identify what affects the rate of insertion of a genetic sequence...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Base editing as a potential therapy for heart disease
Mouse heart cells, genetically modified after a heart attack, recovered from the damage caused...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Gene activity and protein location better specified across tissues
Gene activity and protein identification has been revealed in organs and tumours to a high resolution using a novel method...
Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
Epigenetic markers retained across generations of worms
Epigenetic changes to DNA can be inherited by multiple generations of offspring, new research has shown...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Book Review: Why DNA? – From DNA sequence to biological complexity
Prior to 2020, genetic mutations weren't something that regularly made the news. Now, two-and-a-half years out from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, new genetic variants continue to hit the headlines, and genomic mutations – in a virus, at least – are something the public are much more aware of...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Rare mutation negates Alzheimer's risk posed by APOE gene variant
The APOE4 gene variant increases a person's risk of Alzheimer's disease exponentially, though a new protective mutation has been discovered to protect against this risk...