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SeqVerify: A New Easily Accessible Tool for Comprehensive Cell Line Quality Assessment – The Stem Cell Report

Jessica Leff — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:54:17 +0000

During the last decade, advances in genome editing and pluripotent stem cell (PSC) culture have let researchers generate edited PSC lines to study a wide variety of biological questions. However, abnormalities in cell lines such as aneuploidy, mutations, on-target and off-target editing errors, and microbial contamination can arise during PSC culture or due to undesired editing outcomes.

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Plastic in our blood? That’s a problem. – Harvard Thinking

Jessica Leff — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:31:34 +0000

Our planet is filled with plastic. On average, we produce 430 million tons every year, most of which is used only for a short period of time and then discarded. But plastic isn’t just in the environment: it’s now in our bodies. Microplastics have been found in our bloodstreams, lungs, and other organs, and we’re only recently beginning to understand how this affects our health.

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Making Sugar Healthier – DDN Dialogues

Jessica Leff — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:33:15 +0000

With some out-of-the-box engineering, researchers have developed a nature-inspired strategy to turn sugar in packaged foods into gut-healthy fiber. This podcast features Director of Business Development, Sam Inverso, Ph.D., and Senior Engineer Adama Sesay, Ph.D., along with Judith Moca and John Topinka from Kraft-Heinz. This episode was created and is owned by Drug Discovery News…

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Ideas to Innovation – From Lab to Life: The Transformative Power of Synthetic Biology

Jessica Leff — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:10:47 +0000

Rapid advancements in technology and science are shaping a new era, with artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, or “syn-bio,” at the forefront. Heralded as the next big leap in science, syn-bio involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities. The importance of syn-bio for people and our planet cannot be overstated. It offers novel ways of…

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Reimagining personalized medicine for each patient: Alican Ozkan

Jessica Leff — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:00:51 +0000

By Jessica Leff Listen to Alican tell his story. | Wyss Institute · Alican Ozkan Reimagine The World On the banks of the Aegean Sea sits Izmir, the third-most-populous city in Turkey. It’s geographically part of Asia, but culturally seems more at home in Europe. This is also the city where Alican Ozkan grew up. His parents, both chemical engineers, met at their university.

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BIOS Podcast – Future of Microfluidics with David Weitz – Professor at Harvard/Core Faculty at Wyss Institute

Jessica Leff — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:04:13 +0000

David Weitz is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics & Applied Physics and professor of Systems Biology at Harvard University. Weitz is best known for his work in the areas of diffusing-wave spectroscopy, microrheology, microfluidics, rheology, fluid mechanics, interface and colloid science, colloid chemistry, biophysics, complex fluids, soft condensed matter physics, phase transitions…

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Reimagining Infertility – An Interview with Christian Kramme

Jessica Leff — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:12:12 +0000

Christian Kramme imagines a world where all people can have a child on their own time frame. Such “reproductive autonomy” is not the case today – infertility is a growing problem worldwide, and existing treatments like IVF are incredibly taxing on women’s bodies and too expensive for most of the global population to access. Listen to our interview with Christian to learn how he is working to turn…

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Reimagining Infertility – An Interview with Christian Kramme

Seth Kroll — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:11:15 +0000

By Lindsay Brownell Every day, members of the Wyss community reimagine a world where anything is possible. It’s a world of scientific discovery, imagination, and innovation, where diseases are cured, climate change is reversed, pandemics are prevented, and lives are changed for the better. The ideas that we are bringing to life through our research and engineering might seem like science fiction…

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Reimagining science and healthcare for all, through the eyes of her grandparents: Nina Donghia

Jessica Leff — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:15:34 +0000

By Jessica Leff Listen to Nina tell her story. | Wyss Institute Nina Donghia Growing up in Tampa Bay, Florida, Nina Donghia spent her childhood days playing outside with her identical twin sister. She enjoyed chasing after small creatures, especially lizards, trying to study their behavior. Every summer, the Donghias would travel north to the town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania…

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Illuminating Biological Context with Josie Kishi – Translation by Fifty Years

Jessica Leff — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:47:03 +0000

Technologies like next-generation sequencing allow us to understand which RNA transcripts and proteins are expressed in biological tissues. However, it’s often equally important to understand how cells or molecules are positioned relative to one another! Whether it be a cell changing its shape, an organelle ramping up a metabolic process, or a DNA molecule traveling across the nucleus…

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