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Protein engineering, #SynBio applications, and other updates from the @BergerEngineer Research Group at @UVA CHE/BME 🧫🧬💊🧪

Joined October 2019
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My project all through the semester: nothing works, not fun, terrible time. My project the week and a half before break: really interesting, very fun, a great time. Pretty rude of it if you ask me. It must know I am leaving
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You might have missed it among other news from DC in the past couple of days but the House just passed the Engineering Biology Research and Development Act of 2019! 🧬🦠🧫🔬 congress.gov/bill/116th-cong…

Text - H.R.4373 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Engineering Biology Research and Development Act of...

Text for H.R.4373 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Engineering Biology Research and Development Act of 2019

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Congrats to our lab’s newest @UVABME PhD candidate, Nate! 🎉
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Go Madison! 👏🏼
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UVA chemical engineering professor Bryan Berger is investigating the use of industrial hemp to rid the planet of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. ow.ly/Laqa30pYl1t
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A new way to control microbial metabolism: Chemical engineers program bacteria to switch between different metabolic pathways, boosting their yield of desirable products. bit.ly/2OHuoQp #synbio #biotech #microbiology #biotechnology

A new way to control microbial metabolism

To help optimize microbes’ ability to produce useful compounds but also maintain their own growth, MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to induce bacteria to switch between different metabolic...

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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are chemicals used in a huge number of consumer products. They have contaminated soil and water. Prof. Bryan Berger and his research team are investigating a natural solution to this manmade problem: at.virginia.edu/35UsdP0
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For CRISPR-based genome editing, such a moment occurred 1 year ago—an unsettling push into an era that will test how society decides to use this revolutionary technology. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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🍳➡️💧➡️🌿➡️✔️
Bill Epling@uvachechair2 Dec 2019
PFAS are widely used chemicals linked to serious health issues. Prof. Bryan Berger's lab is doing great work with industrial hemp to clean it up from the environment. Kudos to @BergerEngineer and Ph.D. student Madison Mann! Great UVA Today story: at.virginia.edu/35UsdP0
Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… #synbio #biotech #climatechange #microbiology
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Every day I walk into lab with my fingers crossed that something grew where it was supposed to or didn’t grow where it’s NOT supposed to 🤞🏻
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They grew!!!!!
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Still perfect! @UVAMensHoops beats Arizona State 4⃣8⃣-4⃣5⃣ #GoHoos | #Wahoowa 🔶🔷
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#Goals
John Cumbers
@johncumbers21 Nov 2019
The scientist who first showed us the double helix: a personal look at Rosalind Franklin bit.ly/2qpeKjp #womeninSTEM #womeninscience #womeninresearch
BREAKING: Successful treatment of Beta thalassemia (Patient is transfusion independent) and Sickle cell disease patient using #CRISPR. @VertexPharma @CRISPRTX statnews.com/2019/11/19/firs…

First CRISPR treatment for blood diseases shows early benefits in two patients

The first two patients to receive a CRISPR-based treatment for inherited blood disorders have benefited from the experimental therapy, said the companies developing the therapy.

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We are a bulleted list type of people
Check out the #BergerLab bringing #biotech to the next generation of #STEM students!
Bill Epling@uvachechair8 Nov 2019
Prof. Berger welcomed 7 Robious Elementary 5th-graders interested in biotech to his class led by BME Ph.D. student Nate Sallada during a field trip to UVA capping their study of colleges and careers! Teacher and UVA alum Morgan Saxby sat in with the students.
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The first attempt in the U.S. to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far. apne.ws/Y825gRS

Doctors try CRISPR gene editing for cancer, a 1st in the US

The first attempt in the United States to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in the three patients who have had it so far, but it's too soon to know if it will improve...

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With proposal, manuscript, and grant writing season in full swing, we know this feeling all too well!
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A #BergerLab haiku: Doing PCR Do we need dNTPs? Darn it— we are out. 🧬
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Chemical engineering Prof. Bryan Berger is part of a collaboration with @UVA and @UVa_Wise researchers using their work to spur economic development in Southwest Virginia through an Appalachian Prosperity Project fellowship. Read more: at.virginia.edu/2NdC6CZ
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