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Genomic and environmental determinants of circular single-stranded DNA production in engineered E. coli

Single-stranded DNA with hundreds to thousands of bases is a critical reagent in biotechnology. While traditional chemical synthesis is not suitable for efficient production of such long oligonucleotides, M13 bacteriophage offers a scalable pathway towards custom, long, single-stranded DNA production. However, conventional helper plasmid-phagemid systems suffer from batch-to-batch variability and…

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Fire, smoke and statesmanship

When choking transboundary haze pushed Singapore and Indonesia to the brink of an economic and diplomatic standoff, pragmatic leadership proved that following the money trail—not nationalist…

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