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When I came across this new paper by Brinkerhoff et al, I knew I had to blog about it, and I finally had a chance to sit down and write about it while taking a train from Rome to Florence. Cover art is the Oxford Nanopore MinION. Shoutout to the AAAS for granting me permission to use some figures from the paper!
I read a paper that is well written and a surprising development in the field of gene/DNA therapeutics, so I wanted to share and summarize it, with a special focus on molecular biology. The title says it all, but you gotta be careful not to jump to conclusions: it’s not the AAV that seems to be the problem, nor is it the miRNA targeting the disease-causing gene. It turns out that the way the construct is designed causes toxic responses in animals. Cover art is a collage of the new constructs tested by Megan S. Keiser et al.
I came across some cool developments at the intersection of diet, drugs, and the brain recently, and wanted share them, including Amarin's drug patent woes, oral semaglutide results, and Adermark et al's paper on how weight gain and neuroadaptations elicited by high fat diet depend on fatty acid composition. Cover art is a meme inspired by the Vascepa saga.
