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How Targeted Cancer Drugs Disrupt the Cell Cycle

PLOS: DNA Science

A “DNA damage checkpoint” rests the cell cycle while special proteins repair damaged DNA. Cancer cells make too much survivin, with levels increasing as the disease spreads and becomes more aggressive. Here’s an article from 2002. An “apoptosis checkpoint” turns on as mitosis begins.

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What Took So Long: How Tech Has Finally Caught Up With Transcription Factors

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HotSpot Therapeutics today announced a strategic collaboration with Abbvie to develop IRF5 transcription factor inhibitors for autoimmune diseases. These hair clip-like molecules clamp onto DNA, thereby turning many genes on and off. But it does contain a natural hotspot which our Smart Allostery platform has uncovered.

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OBI Pharma Announces Presentations at ESMO Asia 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting for OBI-833, a Novel Anti-Globo H Targeted Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine

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In addition, OBI-833 can elicit a beneficial immune response in NSCLC patients and had rendered some TKI-treated patients a durable stable disease status. is a Taiwan biopharmaceutical company that was established in 2002. ” Presentation number: 397P / Poster: ID 680. About OBI Pharma. OBI Pharma, Inc.,

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

The other powerful benefit is that our cell lines can become any of the cell types of the human body – these cells have within their DNA the capability to become any of the more than 200 human cell types which you might want to manufacture. This provides some regulatory advantages, and of course, significant cost advantages.

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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH As a volunteer physician in a small hospital in Nigeria 30 years ago, I was bitten by lots of mosquitoes and soon came down with headache, chills, fever, and muscle aches. In 2016 alone, an estimated 216 million people were treated for the disease. falciparum genome.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

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Allison Berke makes the case for real-time DNA sequencing and AI tools to detect pathogens before they spread widely. Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. After copying the DNA to form a big pool, each piece is sequenced.

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Determining Disease Risks Based on Genetic Ancestry Can Counter Health Care Disparities, But Doesn’t Go Far Enough

PLOS: DNA Science

When it comes to estimating risk of a disease that is either genetic or has a genetic component, ancestry of an individual plays an important role. Tools to Track Disease: Biobanks to AI The new investigation looks at points in a human genome that can be any of the four types of DNA building blocks – A, C, T, or G.

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