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Sandeep Dave featured in Magnify: Getting Personal with Blood Cancers

For most cancers, advances in genomics haven’t changed treatment strategies very much.

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Cancer treatment startup started by Xiling Shen and David Hsu raises $70M

Durham, N.C. (July 8, 2021) – Xilis, Inc., a pioneering company using its MicroOrganoSphere (MOS) technology to...

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Cerebral Cavernous Malformation: Moving Away From Surgery, Exploring Alternate Treatments

By Kate Robinson | Technology Networks: Drug Discovery

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November 18, 2020

Childhood Lead Exposure Leads to Structural Changes in Middle-aged Brains

Study participants had lead exposures typical for the 1970s

By Karl Leif Bates

The list of equations required to model three plasmids being swapped in one bacterial species using the old method (left) versus the new, simplified model’s equations (right)

November 10, 2020

Researchers Discover Bacterial DNA’s Recipe for Success

A single criterion predicts whether a genetic package such as antibiotic resistance will thrive in a given environment

By Ken Kingery

November 2, 2020

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative tackles synthetic biology

Lingchong You and Ashutosh Chilkoti, are collaborators on a five-year, $7.5 million MURI award.

November 2, 2020

Research Roundup: October 2020

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in October 2020

collage of protein constructions of SARS-CoV-2

October 23, 2020

Spring Seminar on Computational Biology focuses on SARS-Cov-2 and COVID-19

Bruce Donald, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, will offer a seminar in the spring focused on COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and therapeutic design.

October 23, 2020

GCB helps spin out success

In FY20, 17 new start-up companies formed at Duke, according to Duke’s Office of Licensing and Ventures (OLV).

TBP-bound mismatched vs Watson-Crick DNA

October 21, 2020

Transcription Factors May Inadvertently Lock in DNA Mistakes

Binding to mismatched DNA takes less energy; may explain how regulatory mutations get locked in

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, appears to have evolved silent changes to its RNA code that gave it a biological edge over previous strains. Credit: Felipe Esquivel Reed

October 16, 2020

PINPOINTING THE 'SILENT' MUTATIONS THAT GAVE THE CORONAVIRUS AN EVOLUTIONARY EDGE

RNA folding may help explain how the coronavirus became so hard to stop after it spilled over from wildlife to humans.

October 14, 2020

Fall GCB Newsletter

Highlights to the current issue include

October 5, 2020

Research Roundup: September 2020

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in September 2020:

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