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BergerLab
@BergerLabUVA
Protein engineering, #SynBio applications, and other updates from the @BergerEngineer Research Group at @UVA CHE/BME 🧫🧬💊🧪
Katılım Ekim 2019
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You might have missed it among other news from DC in the past couple of days but the House just passed the Engineering Biology Research and Development Act of 2019! 🧬🦠🧫🔬 congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
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A new way to control microbial metabolism:
Chemical engineers program bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways, boosting their yield of desirable products. bit.ly/2OHuoQp #synbio #biotech #microbiology #biotechnology
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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are chemicals used in a huge number of consumer products. They have contaminated soil and water. Prof. Bryan Berger and his research team are investigating a natural solution to this manmade problem: at.virginia.edu/35UsdP0
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For CRISPR-based genome editing, such a moment occurred 1 year ago—an unsettling push into an era that will test how society decides to use this revolutionary technology.
science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…
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Bill Epling@uvachechair
PFAS are widely used chemicals linked to serious health issues. Prof. Bryan Berger's lab is doing great work with industrial hemp to clean it up from the environment. Kudos to @BergerEngineer and Ph.D. student Madison Mann! Great UVA Today story: at.virginia.edu/35UsdP0
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Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food. nature.com/articles/d4158… #synbio #biotech #climatechange #microbiology
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BREAKING: Successful treatment of Beta thalassemia (Patient is transfusion independent) and Sickle cell disease patient using #CRISPR. @VertexPharma
@CRISPRTX
statnews.com/2019/11/19/fir…
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The first attempt in the U.S. to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far. apne.ws/Y825gRS
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A #BergerLab haiku:
Doing PCR
Do we need dNTPs?
Darn it— we are out. 🧬
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Chemical engineering Prof. Bryan Berger is part of a collaboration with @UVA and @UVa_Wise researchers using their work to spur economic development in Southwest Virginia through an Appalachian Prosperity Project fellowship. Read more: at.virginia.edu/2NdC6CZ

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