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The role of STRIs in cancer

Drug Target Review

This approach is highly targeted, as STRIs selectively inhibit the translation of a specific network of disease-causing proteins without affecting the broader cellular machinery. By directly inhibiting the translation of disease-causing proteins, STRIs offer a novel strategy to overcome resistance mechanisms. He received his B.S.

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The evolution of cell therapy to address unmet medical needs

Drug Target Review

There are many opportunities to address conditions of the eye, such as retinitis pigmentosa, dry age-related macular degeneration or any of the hundreds of inherited retinal diseases. He received a BS in biology from Boston College, a masters in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Blood and urine samples from the man were waiting for Happi in his lab. Happi felt chilled. They called the idea Sentinel.

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A Look Back

Dark Matter Blog

The only subject in school that held my interest was biology. As soon as I learned about DNA and RNA, I wanted to be a molecular biologist. I wanted to use molecular biology to create drugs. Synta was focused on small molecule drug discovery and development in oncology and inflammatory diseases.

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The Nobel Prize winning power of click chemistry

Drug Discovery World

José Mejía Oneto , PhD, Founder and CEO at Shasqi, discusses the potential of chemistry to engineer biology to improve the effectiveness of human therapeutics and revolutionise the treatment of disease. This simple and elegant chemistry concept has the potential to revolutionise how we treat disease. 2007 Oct 23;104(43):16793-7.

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Codon: Notes on Progress #2

Codon

I recently asked for recommendations of “classic” papers in molecular biology. And a Phase I study for three patients with late-onset Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder that causes glycogen to build up inside of cells and causes the heart and skeletal muscles to slowly break down, also looks promising.

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The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology

Codon

Journal of Molecular Biology (1961). Link Mathematical modeling and synthetic biology , by Chandran D. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (2008). Link Graphic Notations →Synthetic Biology Open Language Visual: An Open-Source Graphical Notation for Synthetic Biology , by Quinn J. BMC Biology (2019).

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