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Defective HIV RNA Linked to Persistent Viremia During Long-Term ART
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has enabled most people living with HIV to live long and healthy lives. However, a small portion…
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AI Reimagines Caffeine as a Molecular Off‑Switch for Engineered Cells
Credit: asikkk / iStock / Getty Images Plus A cup of coffee can mean many things: a daily part of…
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Chikungunya Vaccine Development in Africa Accelerated by ACT-CHIK
Aedes aegypti mosquito [Institut Pasteur/Felix Hol, Blaise Daures et Louis Lambrechts] Institut Pasteur is launching ACT-CHIK (Accelerating Clinical Trials for…
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CiteSentinel Launched to Detect and Prevent AI Hallucinations in Legal Citations
Credit: Alexander Sikov/Getty Images Legal tech startup BrentWorks reports that it has launched CiteSentinel, a dedicated platform built specifically to…
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CRISPR Shreds Undruggable Cancer Cells with Precision
Credit: luismmolina / iStock / Getty Images Plus When Jingkun Zeng, PhD, joined the lab of Nobel laureate, Jennifer Doudna,…
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StockWatch: Abivax Survives a Roller Coaster Week
A graphic image of Abivax’s lead pipeline candidate obefazimod, a small molecule upregulator of miR-124, an anti-inflammatory microRNA. Abivax this…
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How Germinal Centers Generate Antibodies Through Noisy Rounds of Mutation and Selection
Side-by-side images of germinal centers before and after photoactivation. Researchers used a novel technique to study in fine detail the…
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Twin Prime Editing Enables Rapid Trait Stacking in Crops
Credit: wildpixel / iStock / Getty Images Plus Researchers working to advance genome engineering in crops face many challenges, including…
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Bio-Techne, Refeyn Partner on Workflow for Bispecific Antibody, Biosimilar Characterization
Illustration of a bispecific antibody (pink and green) binding to two different membrane proteins (yellow and blue). [Thom Leach/Science Photo…
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A Billion-Dollar Deal, Trial Trouble, Biohub Updates, and Vaccine Research News
Poliovirus, illustration. [Thomas Leach/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] In this week’s episode, we start with news that Fulcrum Therapeutics is scrapping…