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Gene Therapy in Huntington’s Disease 🧬 !!
Something pretty incredible happened last week. A clinical trial for a new gene therapy for Huntington’s Disease – a devastating condition with no known cure – showed 75% slowing of disease progression. This is huge. I wanted to take this opportunity learn for myself and share how this new therapeutic works. Let’s go. Contents: First,…
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What does it mean to sequence a DNA? And how do we do this? 👩🔬
Sequencing DNA simply means examining DNA, and determining the exact order of the components (i.e.: nucleotide bases – A, T, C, & G) in a strand of DNA. So when we sequence a human genome, we find out the exact sequence of someone’s unique 3 billion letters of DNA. here’s a snippet of what that…
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How do mRNA vaccines work? 💉
Now that we know what proteins do and how they’re made, we can get into the good stuff! Let’s do a little something different today, and talk about how mRNA vaccines work. And a little recap about the science before we start: mRNA vaccines are a relatively new technology. The concept has been studied for…
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What exactly do proteins do? 🧪
(It’s been a minute – life ran away from me!) 🏃♀️💨 Last month, we spoke about what genes do (recap: they encode proteins), and their crucial role in protein production. But what exactly do we need proteins for? Well, just about everything, it turns out. Proteins are large complex molecules made up of polypeptide (i.e.:…
Genomics For Dummies 