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Tom Cruise and DNA-binding Proteins

Current mood:talkative

Tim Horn, editor-in-chief of AIDSmeds, recently invited me to sit in on a meeting he was having with several folks from Sangamo BioSciences Inc. to hear about their research and development efforts.

howitworks_fig3.jpgThe meeting was specifically to cover Sangamo's efforts within HIV, notably its focus on the research and development of novel DNA-binding proteins for therapeutic gene regulation and modification. The meeting had a very technical-slant, as at times I felt like I was in the final round of the National Spelling Bee.

While Tim was keeping up and blitzing them with questions, I was very appreciative of the colorful slides (like the one pictured here) used to illustrate zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs) and ZFP transcription factors (ZFP TFs).

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