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Monthly Archives: March 2021

NIH awards grants to support bacteriophage therapy research

NIH awards grants to support bacteriophage therapy research
“Phage” therapies offer potential strategy to combat antibacterial resistance. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on bacteriophage therapy. These awards represent NIAID’s first series of grants focused exclusively on research…
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The Code Breaker Is the Crispr Chronicle You Need to Read

The Code Breaker Is the Crispr Chronicle You Need to Read
Walter Isaacson’s account, out Tuesday, is a thrilling tale of scientific discovery. He talks about gene-editing tech—and the future of the human race. Isaacson’s latest book, The Code Breaker, breathlessly follows Doudna from a childhood spent trekking through the wilds of Hawaii to her pioneering work harnessing a bacterial defense system to rewrite the code…
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