TWiV 1275: An amazing sequence and a gutsy therapy
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TWiV explains the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of pre-mRNA splicing, and engineering bacteriophage to deliver proteins to the human intestine.
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- Immune 100 live at the Incubator
- Spliced segments of adenovirus mRNA (PNAS)
- An amazing sequence in adenovirus mRNA (Cell)
- Nobel Prize for mRNA splicing (Nobel)
- A predominant undecanucleotide in adenovirus late mRNAs (Cell)
- Splicing RNA with Phillip A. Sharp (ASM)
- Protein production in the gut by engineered phage (Nat Biotech)
- Engineered phage T4 (Curr Op Virol)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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