CRISPR Guide RNA Design

CRISPR Guide RNA Design

Author: Tudor A. Fulga

Publisher: Humana

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781071606865

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This detailed volume focuses on the CRISPR-associated guide RNA and how it can be designed, modified, and validated for a broad repertoire of purposes. Beginning with a section on computational design of target-specific guide RNAs, the book continues by covering chemical modifications to alter guide RNA stability, specificity, and efficiency, as well as to create inducible guide RNAs, append additional functional domains, and express guide RNAs in a conditional manner. It concludes with methods for measuring off-target guide RNA activity. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and essential, CRISPR Guide RNA Design: Methods and Protocols provides a comprehensive pipeline for guide RNA design and aims to be an invaluable resource in applying this powerful technology to basic research and therapeutic applications.


RNA Design

RNA Design

Author: Alexander Churkin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published:

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1071640798

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RNA Therapeutics

RNA Therapeutics

Author: Mouldy Sioud

Publisher: Humana Press

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 9781607616641

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Central to the synthesis of proteins, the performance of catalysis, and many other physiological processes, the aberrant expression of which can be linked to human diseases including cancers, RNA has proven to be key target for therapeutics as well as a tool for therapy. In RNA Therapeutics: Function, Design, and Delivery, expert contributors from a broad spectrum of scientific backgrounds highlight the roles that messenger RNAs and small RNAs can play in biology and medicine. While covering the five major RNA-based drugs, namely the use of ribozymes to cleave and/or correct mRNA transcript, the use of siRNA for targeted silencing of gene transcripts, the use of aptamers, like short RNA molecules, for neutralizing the protein functions, the use mRNA-transfected DCs to activate immune system against tumor cells, as well as the use of RNA to reprogram T and/or DC cell function, this extensive volume brings together the fields of coding (mRNA) and non-coding RNA such as ribozymes, RNAse P, siRNAs, and miRNAs into one convenient source. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular BiologyTM series format, the cutting-edge protocol chapters contain introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and practical tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Also, the book contains several excellent reviews for teaching purposes. Authoritative and comprehensive, RNA Therapeutics: Function, Design, and Delivery provides key models and tools which will assist researchers in increasing our understanding of RNA functions, modifications, and their involvement in diseases in order to lead to the design of vital new RNA-based therapeutics.


RNA Structure Prediction

RNA Structure Prediction

Author: Risa Karakida Kawaguchi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1071627686

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This book explores recent progress in RNA secondary, tertiary structure prediction, and its application from an expansive point of view. Because of advancements in experimental protocols and devices, the integration of new types of data as well as new analysis techniques is necessary, and this volume discusses additional topics that are closely related to RNA structure prediction, such as the detection of structure-disrupting mutations, high-throughput structure analysis, and 3D structure design. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters feature the kind of detailed implementation advice that leads to quality research results. Authoritative and practical, RNA Structure Prediction serves as a valuable guide for both experimental and computational RNA researchers.


RNA Therapeutics Part A

RNA Therapeutics Part A

Author:

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2024-02-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0443223157

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RNA Therapeutics, Part A, Volume 203 presents the latest on a new class of medication based on RNA molecules. The book includes timely chapters that focus on An introduction to RNA therapeutics and potentials, The development and technologies of RNA therapeutics, Types of RNA therapeutics, Molecular mechanisms of RNA therapeutics, IT, and AI applications in RNA therapeutics, The application of data sciences and bioinformatics in RNA therapeutics, RNA therapeutics history and future perspectives, Recent applications of RNA therapeutic in clinics, Advantages and disadvantages of RNA therapeutics, RNA therapeutics for neurological disease, RNA therapeutics for metabolic disorders, and RNA therapeutics for metabolic disorders. - Discusses the history of RNA therapeutics, along with future perspectives - Presents the processes of RNA therapeutical developments - Covers recent applications of RNA therapeutics in clinics - Provides the advantages and disadvantages of RNA therapeutics


Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Author: Marco Dorigo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-08-29

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 3540384839

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2006, held in Brussels, Belgium, in September 2006. The 27 revised full papers, 23 revised short papers, and 12 extended abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions.


Experimental Design for Biologists

Experimental Design for Biologists

Author: David J. Glass

Publisher: CSHL Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0879697350

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The effective design of scientific experiments is critical to success, yet graduate students receive very little formal training in how to do it. Based on a well-received course taught by the author, Experimental Design for Biologistsfills this gap. Experimental Design for Biologistsexplains how to establish the framework for an experimental project, how to set up a system, design experiments within that system, and how to determine and use the correct set of controls. Separate chapters are devoted to negative controls, positive controls, and other categories of controls that are perhaps less recognized, such as “assumption controls†and “experimentalist controls†. Furthermore, there are sections on establishing the experimental system, which include performing critical “system controls†. Should all experimental plans be hypothesis-driven? Is a question/answer approach more appropriate? What was the hypothesis behind the Human Genome Project? What color is the sky? How does one get to Carnegie Hall? The answers to these kinds of questions can be found in Experimental Design for Biologists. Written in an engaging manner, the book provides compelling lessons in framing an experimental question, establishing a validated system to answer the question, and deriving verifiable models from experimental data. Experimental Design for Biologistsis an essential source of theory and practical guidance in designing a research plan.


Biophysics of RNA Folding

Biophysics of RNA Folding

Author: Rick Russell

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-09

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1461449545

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This volume, written by experts in the field, discusses the current understanding of the biophysical principles that govern RNA folding, with featured RNAs including the ribosomal RNAs, viral RNAs, and self-splicing introns. In addition to the fundamental features of RNA folding, the central experimental and computational approaches in the field are presented with an emphasis on their individual strengths and limitations, and how they can be combined to be more powerful than any method alone; these approaches include NMR, single molecule fluorescence, site-directed spin labeling, structure mapping, comparative sequence analysis, graph theory, course-grained 3D modeling, and more. This volume will be of interest to professional researchers and advanced students entering the field of RNA folding.


Therapeutic RNA Nanotechnology

Therapeutic RNA Nanotechnology

Author: Kirill A. Afonin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-07-21

Total Pages: 1229

ISBN-13: 1000263177

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This collection of research articles and reviews covers the latest work in the design, delivery, dynamic abilities, and immune stimulation of RNA nanoparticles which have driven the utilization of their immunomodulatory properties. The unknown immune properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles have been a major hurdle in their adaptation until the works herein began assessing their structure-activity relationships. This collection chronologically follows the path of investigating the recognition of design components to implementing them into nucleic acid nanostructures. RNA nanotechnology is an emerging platform for therapeutics with increasing clinical relevance as this approach becomes more widely used and approved for the treatment of various diseases. The latest research aims to take advantage of RNA’s modular nature for the design of nanostructures which can interact with their environments to communicate programmed messages with intracellular pathways. In doing so, nanoparticles can be used to elicit or elude responses by the immune system as desired in conjunction with their therapeutic applications.