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New high-tech lab at Fred Hutch creates 3D maps of proteins to aid therapeutics and vaccine research
April 24, 2021 at 12:10 am
Assistant Professor Melody Campbell prepares a sample in the Shared Resources Cryo-EM Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. (Fred Hutch Photo)
Dr. Melody Campbell was an undergraduate student when she first noticed the beauty and power of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that uses extreme temperatures and an electron microscope to create 3D maps of proteins.
The image was stunning, and Campbell decided in that moment to focus her career on the revolutionary technique.
“I’m a visual person,” said Campbell, now an assistant professor in the Basic Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. “You can learn so much about proteins by looking at them.”
Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more
April 15, 2021 at 4:44 pm
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Chad Robins, left, is co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Biotechnologies, which he co-founded with his brother, Harlan Robins, right, a theoretical physicist turned computational biologist who is the company’s chief scientific officer. (Adaptive Biotechnologies Photo) Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders and brothers Chad and Harlan Robins are among the directors of a new life sciences SPAC.
The blank check company is called CM Life Sciences III Inc. and listed on the NASDAQ starting April 7. The SPAC is targeting companies in “three separate areas of the life sciences industry that are often fragmented life sciences tools, synthetic biology and diagnostics.”
Study reveals how DNA segments function in cells
A new study co-authored by University of Colorado Cancer Center researcher Srinivas Ramachandran, PhD, shows how DNA segments known as enhancers function in cells.
The paper published last month in
Molecular Cell highlighted the work from Ramachandran, along with Satyanarayan Rao, both part of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the CU School of Medicine, and Kami Ahmad from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Enhancers are DNA sequences that drive cell-type-specific gene expression, developmental transitions, and cellular responses to external stimuli. They typically have multiple binding sites for transcription factors, which are proteins that help turn specific genes on or off by binding to nearby DNA.