HIGH THROUGHPUT: PE Applied Biosystems’ ABI 394 DNA/RNA Synthesizer is controlled by a Macintosh computer. Polypeptides (proteins) and polynucleotides (DNA/RNA) are the two essentials of organic life.

This article explores limitations of chemical synthesis in high-throughput settings and the technical advantages enzymatic ...

Therapeutic oligonucleotides act on different stages of pathological gene expression. Standard schematic of oligonucleotide activities in pathogenesis disease progression. Decoys bind to transcription ...

There’s been this dream for decades. What if we could just print out an entire gene directly, one base at a time? —Daniel Lin-Arlow, Ansa Biotechnologies As scientists set their sights on cell and ...

The state of DNA synthesis is a bit like humanity’s journey to the moon—just because something has been achieved before doesn’t mean we should cease figuring out how to do it better.” That is how ...

The use of oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents is of great interest, particularly when it comes to siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides. However, the difficulty of targeting the right organ and ...

WuXi STA, the pharmaceutical contract services division of WuXi AppTec, has expanded oligonucleotide and peptide manufacturing with a new large-scale facility at its Changzhou, China, complex. The ...