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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

Genomics applies to all species, revealing evolution in action, because we all use the same genetic code – that is, the correspondence between DNA sequences and the amino acid sequences of proteins. Cats and Bird Flu Comparing DNA sequences is a little like linguistic research that connects languages.

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China’s National Medical Products Administration approves Benlysta (belimumab) for adult patients with active lupus nephritis

The Pharma Data

positive anti-double-stranded DNA and low complement, and an objective assessment of overall disease activity using SELENA-SLEDAI score ? Belimumab is also approved in China for five-year-old and older patients with active, autoantibody-positive SLE with high disease activity (e.g., 8) in combination with standard of care. About lupus.

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Welcome to Asimov Press

Codon

Recombinant DNA technologies were invented in the 1970s. A first draft of the human genome was completed in 2003. We’re particularly fond of Why We Didn’t Get a Malaria Vaccine Sooner. Gene-editing methods, polymerase chain reaction, and the first human drug made from engineered microbes all debuted in the 1980s.

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Antibody-drug conjugates payloads: then, now and next

Drug Target Review

2 In response, DNA-damaging agents that could target the entire cell cycle received renewed attention as ADC payloads. 10 Proteasome inhibitors Since the approval of Bortezomib in 2003, 11 new proteasome inhibitors have emerged with reduced side effects. DNA damaging agent-based antibody-drug conjugates for cancer therapy.